THE TWO: A Biography of the Original Siamese Twins by Amy Wallace & Irving Wallace

Author:Amy Wallace & Irving Wallace [Wallace, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biographies
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Published: 2011-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

An elopement was agreed upon [wrote Judge Graves]. Of course it was to have been kept profoundly secret. The plan agreed upon was this: For a time the matter was to be apparently dropped until the ensuing county court week when Esquire Yates, who was one of the county Justices, would go to Wilkesboro to assist in holding the court, when the parties at an appointed hour should meet at a “Covenant Meeting House” which stands on the hill near the South Fork of Roaring River, and there, their old friend Colby Sparks, the Baptist pastor, was to be waiting ready to perform the ceremony, easy to be done before there could be any danger from pursuit. They understood pretty well there could then be no pursuit, for the irate father could not know of their flight in some time, and the mother who weighed five hundred pounds could not follow over such roads as lay between the Yates homestead and “Covenant Meeting House.”

The elopement was never consummated. The parents having ascertained that the daughters intended to marry, and that they would not be dissuaded from their purpose, allowed them to be married at home ..

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