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Thursday, February 28, 2019

Connelly Springs Boys Jilt Fiances Day Before Wedding

From the Hickory Daily Record, Feb. 27, 1919

Two Boys Jilt Girls Day Before Wedding

After they learned the men who were to have married them at a double wedding Saturday has left town the night before, Miss Mary E. Brandt and Miss Ella Grant, of Gloucester, went to the homes of the persons who had been invited of the wedding and personally recalled the invitations.

The girls, who are 18 and 17 respectively, live a few doors from each other on Cumberland street. They were to have been married at 5 o’clock Saturday afternoon in the parsonage of the First Methodist church.

The bridegrooms were to have been Lawrence Stephenson, 18, of Connelly Springs, N.C., fiancé of Miss Brandt, and Otis Berry, 18, of the same town, fiancé of Miss Grant.

While they wooed the two girls they spent their money freely. At Christmas each gave his sweetheart a diamond ring. Wednesday the young men discussed the wedding and the honeymoon trip with the girls. Thursday they disappeared; and have not been heard of since.

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