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Show Brother and Sister Wed UmvittiiigllF Mrs. Williams later received confirmation of the relationship of her footer daughter and the farm boy. Knowing that Mary and Ben found so much joy in each other's company, she hastened to give them the "good new.' But the look of joy she expected did not come. Faces of Mary and Ben fell sji they blurted out the story of their secret marirage the month before. Yesterday they solved the bizarre tangle in the only possible way. They had the marriage annulled an-nulled at Hartville. SPRINGFIELD. Mo., Oct. 30 INS In as fantastic a plot as the pen of fiction might create, a farm boy and girl today tried to pick up the threads of a life marred by disclosure they are brother and sister, which forced the annulment of their marriage. Principals of the real life tragedy trag-edy are Ben Yocum. 22-year-old farm hand, and Mary Lee Williams. Wil-liams. 20. a wholesome farm girl. It waa a casually dropped word from the lips of the groom that drew back the curtaini on the melodrama. He mentioned to Mary's mother that he waa an adopted child and his parents' name had been Ipock. The unusual name struck a responsive re-sponsive chord in the memory of the bride's foater mother. She recalled the time 18 years ago when she and her husband went to Jefferson City and from a children's home there picked 2-year-old Mary for adoption. Her name, too, had been Ipock. To make sure, Mrs. Williams wrote to Jefferson City and learned that Mary Lee had a brother who waa adopted by the Ben Yocum family. Meanwhile fate had been developing devel-oping the fantastic plot. Ben crossed Mary's path when he left his foster parents' home at Mountain Moun-tain Grove North for the Johnson county farm of Ben Williams. There Ben fell in love with Mary Lee. and when the harvest waa over they married secretly last September 27. |