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From: Randi Richardson <>
Subject: [INMONROE] Will B. Hazel Weds Mamie Carter in a Race Against Time
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 08:57:03 -0500


Bloomington (IN) World, Jul 20, 1897, p. 1.

A BLOOMINGTON BOY
Woos and Wins an Orange County Belle

Bedford Mail--Yesterday evening about six o'clock, while the shower of rain
was falling, a two-horse closed carriage drove rapidly into town from the
west, and a young man and a young woman alighted who seemed to be laboring
under considerable excitement. They made a bee line for the courthouse and
enquired anxiously for the county clerk.

The couple were Will B. Hazel and Miss Mamie Carter of Orleans, and they
wanted a marriage license and a preacher and wanted 'em bad and wanted 'em
quick, before the lady's irate parents arrived on the
accommodation--already past due--to prevent their union. George W.
McDaniel, Frank Salyards and one or two others interested themselves in the
affair and dispatched one messenger after Deputy Clerk John M. Gainey and
other after Elder W. B. Chrisler; and at 6:15 the two aspirants for
connubial felicity entered the Elder's office through the rain, clasped
their hands and were united as one in less than three shakes of a lamb's tail.

The train pulled across the public square as the ceremony began, and the
worthy Elder put a hurry movement on the formula for fear of
accidents. But no stern and blood thirsty parent appeared on the scene,
and the bride and groom looked relieved, then laughed when pronounced
husband and wife.

Will Hazel formerly worked for Willard Maddux in this city. He is an
excellent barber, jovial and popular, and has many friends here. His home
is in Bloomington, but he has been working in Orleans for a year or
more. He is 26 years of age.

Miss Carter is a daughter of Rob Carter of Orleans and gave her age at
19. She is dark, quite small, and attractive in manner.

The happy couple did not return home but are stopping with Ed Carter, a
brother of the bride, and will remain till Tuesday. A sister of Mrs. Hazel
came up from Orleans this afternoon presumable with a flag of truce from
the old folks.

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