| Show SHE WAS A MAN clio the most remarkable aso ase of S sex concealment on record Pl emphis appeal winchester va special one of aitho the best known ladies of 0 the shenandoah valley has turned tout out to ho be a man aliss E elizabeth lizabeth re becca payne daughter of the laic late joseph Payne pay i necho who lived seven miles here and who for thirty eight jears has appeared as a woman suddenly startled james P riley clerk of the county court here by applying for a license to marry a mias hinton Hin too who had resided in the pa Ps ns as a domestic the lady who fired the heart of ilia bliss payne with such passion aa w compel him to throw oti oil the habit of ins his lifetime and declare his tex ia is forty year years old and prepossessing rhe strange affair lias has caused a do decided seni sensation aaion in the shenandoah valley and nothing else is talked about pyne is said to have appeared in thi this world us a female and was brought up tip as a such no one ever eve r questioned his ilia t sex tex ex and his own avo avowal wal of masculinity astonished the community elizabeth rebecca payne was one ofa of a family office of five or six daughters ue ile was wits brought up as a woman and was admitted it into ito society in company with other hembera odthe of the family he was na always regarded as a somewhat m masculine girl but no one ever suspected he was a man ho ile was a most graceful and nod dashing horse rider and always challenged general admiration as he be frequently rode into winchester with his habit and somewhat long hair trailing in the wind in addition to good birth and inherited acres he developed remarkable bus inezi talent for a EL woman reverses in the family fortune rendered it necessary for fo r come some one to put a shoulder to the wheel his sisters were distinguished for their culture and pero personal perol l cli cerms arnis and several of them married prominent gentlemen miss bliss alb aca payne devoted himself to the management of a farm and slid to the supervision of a tore store which he be had established it at t rest where he also held the appointment of postmistress ileac he also dealt in cattle and horses and became an ex expert pert in that way all his enterprises prospered and nd lie hns has acquired considerable wealth determining to marry he lie threw off his dresses and applied for a license from om the court at winchester but the astonished clerk who like everybody clee else knew him as a wom woman ano declined to issue a license fur for a wo man to marry a woman when payne proved his real aex by I 1 producing the certificate of dr ar H IV mcguire of winchester a license was still refus refused d on the ground that virginia law compels a man to havo have given names which show his sex before he lie can act cs rs a man to the eye of the law payne then determined to have his name changed at the march term of tho the circuit court which will meet on the I 1 ast 1st st in the iho explanation furnished miss payne eaid said there never had been any occasion to doubt the femininity until about a fortnight sauce sace when being led to visit drale dr mcguire and dr love at winchester these gentlemen performed a simple and perilous operation and announced to their patient that there could be no doubt as to his perfect masculinity dr McG mcguire fuire is widely jy known as a skilful surgeon and dr love the other practitioner is a son aon in ladof law of chad J faulkner and anti a highly esteemed physician and gentleman miss bliss payne and mis miss hinton havo not only been associated together in busi business nem but have lived together in the closest social intimacy wor working kingg eating cating and sleeping together without the slightest suspicion that they belonged to opposite sexes somo indignation was at first expressed am among t aig their neighbors over the present discovery one preacher in the neighborhood who recently recently invited miss bliss payne to sleep with his wife during a avisia visit scolded today considerably because his invitation was vas accepted but on oil further understanding of the matter he lie became pacified IMA IV va jan 20 ili misa ilis s payne and miss bliss hinton were married in the southern methodist congregation church of this quaint old town today to day the minister who performed tho the ceremony W was 8 a former chaplain of gen jeb stuarts confederate cavalry regiment |
