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Colwell-Slabaugh Elope

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Colwell-Slabaugh Elope

Posted: 10 May 2004 7:40PM GMT
Classification: Marriage
Edited: 21 May 2004 6:59PM GMT
Surnames: Colwell - Slabaugh
I found a paper clipping in an old Bible that is It is yellow and undated.
"Elopers Wed in Kentucky".
Miss Clara F. Colwell, daughter of Mrs. Colwell of West First Avenue, telephoned her brother Tuesday evening that she was at Cincinatti and that she had been married that day to Earl D. Slabaugh, son of Mr and Mrs H. C. Slabaugh, 375 East Covington. They would be home, she said Wednesday or Thursday. The young man left home Tuesday morning, saying he was going to the country for the day.
The telephone message in the evening explained the ruse for the elopement, which was planned to evade the young man's parents that he was too young to marry. He will be 21 his next birthday, and is in business with his father, a saddler and harness manufacturer, on West Broad Street.

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