From the Gilmer Newspaper January 16, 1917
J. J LEWIS ELOPES WITH HON. J. B. HILL'S DAUGHTER, MISS MAUDE
The home of Hon. J. B. Hill southeast corner square, was the storm center Monday and Tuesday where an irate mother, a determined daughter and a persistent lover contended for the mastory of their wills. The young man, Mr. J. J. Lewis, a brick mason who came here to work on the court house and was a boarder at the Hill boarding house and the daughter of the house, Miss Maude Hill decided to get married and this precipitated the storm. The mother objected, and banished the lover, and forbid the daughter to leave the house. Tuesday morning an attorney was employed and papers were prepared to sue out a writ of habeas corpus alleging that his affianced bride, though of age, was being physically restrained from coming to him, and he not allowed to see her, and the hearing set for 11:30 before District Judge Warren. Before the time for the hearing however, Miss Hill met her lover out in town, and they left in an auto for Pritchett or Big Sandy to catch a train for San Antonio. Just when and where they got married, we did not learn. They were in too much of a hurry to get away from Gilmer or wait here for the cermony to be performed here.
From the Gilmer Newspaper January 23, 1917ELOPED COUPLE MARRIED IN WACO
Mrs. Hill, wife of Hon. J. Ben Hill, received the following telegram from her daughter and Mr . J. J. Lewis, who ran away from here Tuesday morning.
Waco, Jan 23 -- Mrs. J. B. Hill, Gilmer, Texas
Dear Mother, we are happily married and beg your forgiveness?
Lovingly,
Jim and Maude.
This is the sequal to the account of the runaway in Tuesday's Mirror, of J. J. Lewis and Miss Maude Hill, daughter of Hon. and Mrs. J. Ben Hill, who eloped just before the time set for the hearing of the habeaus corpus case to prevent the mother from restraining the young lady from joining her lover.
The many friends of the contracting parties will join in extending congradulations and best wishes, and trust that they will recieve the blessings and forgiveness they have asked for.
Headline: DEATHS
Publication Date: December 05, 1990
Source: The Baton Rouge Morning Advocate
Page: 8-C
Subjects:
Region: Louisiana
Obituary: KRAINTZ, ARMA R.
Died 12:38 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, 1990, at Baton Rouge General Medical Center. She was 80 , a native of
Winnfield and a resident of Baton Rouge. Visiting at Welsh Funeral Home, until religious services at 2 p.m.
Wednesday, conducted by the Rev. Bobby Burnett.
Interment in Resthaven Gardens of Memory. Survived by a daughter, Velma A. Lewis , Baton Rouge ; two
sisters, Lucille I. Landry and Alice I. Dubois, both of Baton Rouge; two brothers , George W. Ingles, Baton
Rouge, and John M. Ingles, Chalmette; nine grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren , four
great-great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by husband, Mathew E. Kraintz; mother, Florence Lucy
Robertson; stepfather, Edgar Ingles; two brothers , Addis P. Ingles and Quincey N. Ingles; and a sister, Hazel Ruth Cooper.