THE MOST MARRIED OF WOMEN.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 15 December 1880, Page 2

THE MOST MARRIED OF WOMEN.

Benjamin Abbott, who 'has just died at Smyrna, New York, m the e ; gbty» second year of his age, was the seventh husband of his widow, who survives him. This much-talfced-of and much* publtshgd event (for it went the round! when he for the second and she for the seventh time wedded before the aHar of Hymen) occurred on June SO, 1875, W then being seventy-eight, and she eighty-two years old. Mrs Abbott's hisfcorv in the marital relations of life Btaods perhaps without a prallel in the records of tbe nation, and tradition has it that there is to be yet another. It 13 currently Btated, without contradiction, that some years ago she had a viei^a in which eight men stood before her in a peculiarly impressive manner, which she has ever regarded as prophetic of the number of "conquests she was to made. Her maiden name «as Williams, and she has been successively Mrs Franz, Mrs Riggs, Mrs Farrow, Mrs Wallace, Mrs Barry, Mrs Pratt, and Mrg Abbott, In every instance, save the first v she has married widowers, some of them with a good number of children ; and on one accaron, in her early married life, she went of the almsbouse and took therefrom three children and raised them. All her life has been spent near Smyrna, and aU her husbands were buried by the Bame undertaker.