Show RICH WOMAN WED Y 9 TIMES r Six Husbands Divorced D Three Dead Has 15 Children By MILLARD FERGUSON Special Correspondent of o The Standard Examiner i Copyright 1927 1921 Consolidated Press PreS Association URANIA La Lt Sept 10 After After nine marriages and six divorces Mrs B B. B of this little Louisiana town again Is a a. widow following the death of her last list and best beloved husband and the community Is wondering If It she will make a 11 tenth adventure into matrimony Mrs Hatfield who Is 59 years ears old cart can an neither read nor write but t she has hag a fortune of every every e pen pen- penny p penny ny ot of it earned by her own effort effort- and speaking from broad experience she says that money means husbands If It you jou OU have plenty of or It you jou can get all the th husbands you jou want and per per- perhaps perhaps haps some you dont don't t want BANK DASK ACCOUNT ATTRACTS In fact Mrs s experience seems to show that Mrs Elinor Ellnor Glyna s It It can cant can't t hold a candle to a large bank account as an attraction She says that most of or her six dl dl dl- were due to the mercenary in instinct In- In Instinct in men and their lack of or sen sen- sentiment In short she was married en various arlous occasions for her money and md when the fact became apparent she he sought refuge In the divorce courts Her optimism concerning the Joys of o married life lite never flagged however and trips to the divorce courts were always alwa's followed by trips to the altar Despite this fact tact Mrs Hatfield is essentially an old-fashioned old woman She is a a. member of the Methodist church she has no patience with flappers flap flap- pers knee high skirts or new tangled dances and is 15 horrified at the thought of 01 petting ACQUIRED FORTUNE There There- isn isn't t a more respected mem mem- member member ber of o her community and the bust busi business bustness ness men of or her home town not only respect her for her old-fashioned old ideals but also for tor her hard common sense When she was a child chUd Mrs Hat- Hat Hatfield's Hatfield's fields field's parents moved to Caldwell parish in Louisiana and since there were no school houses nearby at that thai time she got only two or three months cf ct schooling and grew up unable to read or write But despite that handi handI- handicap handIcap handicap cap she acquired which she Invested largely In real estate and when oil was discovered on her lands her fortune Increased to approximate approximate- approximately ly y HURRIED MARRIED AT 14 U Husbands became one of the easi easi- easiest easiest easiest est things In the world to find When she was Just 14 and hadn't hadn t a penny Mrs Hatfield made her first Journey to the altar accompanied by putt put McDonald who proved to be one cf ct her few tew true loves They lived II to together to- to together together gether for 16 years Then he died leaving her with nine children six sl of whom hom are arc living Altogether she has been blessed with 15 children Next she married Lee Walters with whom she lived two years but she says that he suddenly left town one Saturday night and end never returned Feeling that probably it was for tor the best Mrs Hatfield secured a divorce and took her third husband In the person of o G G. E Bronson lIe He con con- contributed contrIbuted contributed materially to her savings saving fund five lve children were born to them and in all other ways was their life was Ideally happy until his death In 1803 1908 at a lumber camp where he was crushed under the wheels of a tram tramcar car FIVE rIVE MORE MARRIAGES Now that she was liberally sup sup- supplied supplied plied with nth this worlds world's goods Mrs Hatfield found round it significant that that marriage began be an to mean divorce In Instead in- in Instead stead of or happiness s Her next four tour marriage ventures ended In the divorce di divorce di- di divorce vorce court and one of or them lasted only three months The husbands were Jack Burgess Burgees P. P P Jack Gardner and Charlie White Despite these disillusioning experiences experiences she was next married to George Luigi and they lived together for five years rears but divorce seemed to have be become be- be become come a habit for it ended their mat mat- matrimonial matrimonial experience Mrs bin HatE HaU 3 however remained undaunted and her optimism was Just- Just lined filled for her marriage to her ninth husband B B. Hatfield tt was a ae the e happiest f of all and n was also a very e romantic O affair One of her sons brought Hat Hat- Hatfield field 1 home to dinner after aHer a hunting hunt hunt- hunting huntIng ing trip and the much married widow an avid anid Id the dinner guest fell tell in love at sight and were engaged before the week was over Their marriage took place on March 20 20 1925 and they lived happily together with no thought of or divorce until August 6 6 1927 the date of her husbands husband s death Will she marry a tenth time Mrs Hatfield declines to answer but she has ties been quoted as saying that she has hos too much money for matrimony that matrImony that it is harder for a arich arich arich rich woman to find love that it is for a rich man to find the way to heaven he |