Show mily FAMILY OF ELOPERS COPERS story of seven from tile the grandfathers lm miss stella manning aged sixteen doped ea aped tho the other day with her second cousin george hums burns aged twenty writes wr tesa a Carlton ia corros t of tho the st louls louis republic they were married tho the santa samo day in warren tho the girl is tho the youngest daughter of url uri manning fanning a well known lumber dealer tho the young man is tho the son of benjamin njamin llo burns lourns a coal merchant whose wife Is a cousin of tho the girls girla mother there has leon icon no objection to tho the marriage of 0 tho the pair but they apparently arefe preferred to follow it a long established family precedent and eloped georgo george manning afterward colonel manning was knoof one of tho the fIrst settlers in ili this pirt part of the state ho camo came from steaben county N Y in 1800 a young mail inin with a bride who was tho the daughter of general wheeler of Sto ubon tho the were an aristocratic family alq and young manning worked for tho the general miss wheeler or fell in lovo love with tier fathers employed and eloped with him 1 manning grow rich in ili tho the lumber 1 and became a colonel in tho the w war a r of 1812 in 1819 ills daughter ella eloped with silas curtin who was a sawyer lit in ono one ot of tier her mills and wh choso whoso 0 so suit for ills daughters hand col ma manning nning had frowned on oil most emphatically three years later another daughter eloped elope dand and married a young doctor whose practice was barely to pay for ilia own living ho died only a year ago however worth a quarter of it a million dollars ile ho was dr ambrose sullivan the eminent specialist ills money was left to two daughters both of whom had ixon been compelled to clodo or give alvo up the men they had chosen to wed in fit opposition to their fathers command colonel mannings son jason at tho the ngo ago of twenty fell in fit lovo love with tile tho sov obleen year old daughter of a backwoodsman named orazell Graz ely the colonel thought lie ho would bleak bicak up tip that attachment son to philadelphia to school tho the son went but two days later it was learned that tile backwoods mans mails pretty daughter haa laid guno gone with ith I 1 him later on it was learned that tho the had stopped at harrisburg w lore they were married cot colonel net manning had tile the youthful brought bick back and whort when lio lie died jason succeeded to tho management of nai nl i fathers largo witness business enterprises enterprise born to him and his backwoods wife a son and a laughter daughter in 1803 tile son url uri was twenty tareo years old ind and wanted to marry stella mccrea who was w Is nyo live years his junior is ilia father and malcolm mccrea tho the girls father fUli cr wore cro it at odds over mat and both lie ho and mccrea violently bli opposed posed to any union of tile families young uri 1 manning fanning having parental precedent as ills his father had had before him simply settled all ill dispute lit in the matter by running away walh misi mccrea and marrying tier her tho next year uris sister jon johnlo nao living then twenty and havill having also tic au uMp 11 tol 1 un A bior 1 lovoi i u youth nob lot 1 in 11 1 allio llio w 4 IM ig of cither her fa theror her mother doped with him and n married arr ed him ili hi amno 11 rno was G georgo corgo mccormick and ito ho nj i eimu 1011 10 ll ant in I 1 law iri i bevil ii rn Poun il sylv ania As y i alion li ila i been no ill ili tills this bratich of old colonel mannings manning s family bit b ic it wu wai url uri daughter stella who eloped recently with with bea her second cousin csorgo burns there aro several collateral col li toral branches brin chos of tile tanning manning family in fit which elopements elope ments havo have also occurred from time to time during tho past few years |