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Show HEIRESS WEDS HER FARMHAND Descendant oi Famous Family. Bride One of the "Don't Give Up the Ship" Lawrences. Recent Marriage That Occasions Much Gossip in Two Long Island Villages. NEW YORK. Dec 2:.-Members of the. Lawrence family of Long Island, who .re descendants of thn famous C'apt James Lawrence, hero of the Chesapeake, wheso dying words. ' Don't give up the ship," are memorable, were surprised When they learned of tho marriage of their kinswom in. Miss Mary Ann Lawrence, Law-rence, to John Burkhardt, tho overseer of the old Laurni.c estate In Elmhiust, L. I Mrs. Burkhardt who Is first cousin to former Supreme Court Justice Abraham R Lawrence, Is worth more than a Quarter Quar-ter of a million dollars In her own rlijnt. and was looked upon as a confirmed spinster. Her husband eight years ago was a farmhand on tho estate of the bride's father, but since Mr. 1-awrence s death In lfess. has managed the estate, and by his marriage has now como to be part owner of It Burkhardt la a widower with eight childxi n. The nr. -sent Mi- R"rkh.irit Is looked upon as the richest woman lr Elmhurst and Newtown She owns many acres of valaahlo property in that rectlon which land Is now cut up Into lots and Fold for big prices. The two villages, which are only a few mil s apart were agog with the news of the marriage of the rich splnstOI Many young men of the two villages had paid attention to the rich woman, but as the years went by and no an-nruncement an-nruncement came the gossips said she WOUld live and die an obi maid If was known that Rarkhardt bad t,i-n mad" overseer of the estate by Miss Lawrence op her father's death, but that any affair af-fair of the heart existed between the two was never hlntrd at The news of the marriage only became known publicly when John Burkhardt strolled down the main street of Efilm-hurst Efilm-hurst In a new suit of clothes and told his friends of the wedding on Sunday. Then several of the villagers remembered seeing a closed carriage drive up to the Lawrence mansion and afterward go in the direction of Maspeth. The curtains In it were drawn, and who the occupants were had not been known. Was the Bridal Pair. As a fact It was the bride-to-be and hr future husband, who had slipped off quietly to the home of Henry Pass and there in tho presence of only the Immediate Immedi-ate relatives, the marriage cermony had 1, en performed The couplv. returned to the bride's home in Grand street, whei'e the are sp.-nding their honeymoon Mrs. Burkhardt Is a woman of 46 and her husband Is five years her senior She was dressed simply. A diamond solitaire an. I a plain hand of gold on the marriage fing.-r glistened In the candh light and every minute or two her fingers toyed with the Jewels. Her husband looks a Sturdy man of toll He possesses a heal thv. rugged face, set off with a black mustache. As the iMtor was preparing to 50. tho husband whispered tri his wife, and she. m using herself, returned a fev mlnutM afterward with a roll of parchment. Which proved to be the marriage , ,1 -Mficate. Roth of them pored over the maple w.-ids as they shew.. I It with pride to the reporter When Mr lwrence. Sr. died he left two sorft, Joseph and Peter and the duught.-r who has Just been married to Uurkhardl Lawrence left a fortune valued val-ued at $iV.ti Since his death the two St ns have died, and, as they were not married, their wealth went to their sister. sis-ter. Tho father was rccchcr of taxes in the village for many years, and wan much respected by the residents for his kindly disposition and charitable works |