Bridgeton, N.J. Oct 29, 1890 :

On Saturday morning last, Francis Brewster Wilcox, of Millville, N. J. and Miss Ida Richards of Bridgeville, Delaware, were strangers. four hours later they were man and wife.
Mr. Wilcox, about a month age, thought that he had been living in single blessedness long enough, having reached the age of 39 years, and decided not to allow another summer to pass over his head without having a partner to share his fortunes and misfortunes.
Mr. Wilcox is cripple, having been so since an infant on account of a affliction of his spine.
He had places an ad in a matrimonial newspaper and answers came to the number of seventy, among them was one from Miss Ida Richards of Sussex county Delaware, a neatly written epistle telling how she would like to become the wife of a South Jersey man and how she would be perfectly willing to share the ills and luck of a man the remainder of her days. She was twenty one years of age but did not think 39 was any too old for a husband. Three weeks of of correspondence followed, with pictures exchanged, and the two people came face to face at the Ridgeway House in Philadelphia, and there followed a four hour courtship, a ferry boat ride to Camden, where they sought the Rev. Charles Mayhew, who made them man and wife. Back to Philadelphia for a few purchases, then on to Bridgeton where they spent the night at the Cumberland Hotel.
Yesterday morning Wilcox took his bride over to Millville and introduced her to his mother who had been kept in ignorance of his doings,
His mother, upon meeting her new daughter in law, with joy mingled with a few tears, welcomed the new Mrs Wilcox to her home. Mr. Wilcox lives with his mother in Millvile, his father, who is deceased, was the Rev. Julius Wilcox. Mr. Wilcox is engaged in the milling business and has a wide circle of friends in South Jersey. Miss Richards is the only daughter of a widowed mother living in Bridgeville, Sussex County, Delaware and will fall heir to a 500 acre farm.