Brady Lloyd, one of the sons of Paul Lloyd, who lives out in the country west of Chapel Hill, left home Saturday morning in his Ford. As he went out of the front door he called back to his family:
“Don’t know when I’ll be back—may be married when you see me next.”
They were used to such idle jests from him and paid little heed to it.
He went to the home of a neighbor, Ed Ivey, and took Miss Berty Ivey into his car for a ride. This also was not unusual and caused no surprise. But when neither of them turned up Saturday night the two families began to have suspicions.
The couple, it was disclosed later, struck out for Virginia, because the young woman was under the age at which marriage is permitted in this state without the consent of the parents. But they found that the Virginia law was also against them, so they turned the Ford about and went through their own state to South Carolina. There, they were promptly married.
They came back Monday and are now living at the Paul Lloyd home.
From the front page of The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 15, 1925
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