SEVEN TIMES MARRIED.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 247, 9 December 1880, Page 4

SEVEN TIMES MARRIED.

Benjamin Abbot, who has just died at Smyrna, New Yo k, in the eightysecond year of bis age, was the seventh husband of his widow, who survives him. This much talked of and much published event (for it went the rounds when he for the second and she for the seventh timo bowed before the altar of Hymen) occurred on June 30, 1875, he then being seventy-eight and she eighty-two years old. Mrs Abbot's history in the marital relations of life stands perhaps without a parallel in the records of the nation, and tradition has it that there is yet to be another. It is currently stated, without contradiction, that some yet_.s ago she had a vision in which eight men stood before her iv a peculiarly impressive manner, which she has ever regarded as prophetic of the n a a_ ber of conquest.', she was to make. Her maiden name was Wiliams, and she has been successively' Mrs Franz, Mrs Riggs, Mrs Farrow, Mrs Wallace, Mrs Barry, Mrs Pratt, and Mrs Abbot. In every ib stance, save the first, she married widowers, some of them with a gcod number of children ; aud on one occasion, in her early married life, she went to the almshouse and took therefrom three children and raised them. All her life has been spent hear Smyrna, and all her husbands were buried by the same undertaker.