Age 18 years, 7 months, 17 days. Buried April 14, 1888.
The Washington Post December 30 1887
Bulkley Gets His Bride
She Accepts Him as Her Husband of Her Own Free Will
The Matter Arranged in a Lawyer's Office and the Suit to Annul the Marriage Quickly Withdrawn
What the Parents Say
Last night Mrs. Grassie Bulkley, nee Bessie Hillyer, accompanied her husband as his acknowledged wife to the house of a mutual friend near Dupont Circle. In this one sentence is condensed the story of a three-volume novel.
A week ago last Tuesday morning, Miss Bessie Hillyer, the fiancee of Mr. W.L. Trenholm, son of the Comptroller of the Currency, left her father's house on Massachusetts Avenue, met Grassie Bulkley, son of Dr. J.W. Bulkley, by appointment and accompanied him to Baltimore, where they were married in the presence of one witness, Mr. Antonia Nogueiras. They immediately returned to Washington, the young lady going to her father's house to break the news and the youthful husband returning likewise to his home. The whole affair was a thunderbolt from a comparatively clear sky in social circles and the ceaseless tongue of gossip wagged faster than ever when the elopement was followed after a week's delay by the filing of a bill for divorce by the young lady's father, with her alleged consent, in which bill fraudulent artifice, misrepresentation, threats and various other offenses were charged against the defendant. This summary proceeding brought matters to a crisis at once. While Judge Hillyer's anger had in no degree abated, his prudence was perhaps appealed to by the knowledge that a writ of habeas corpus would quickly bring the young lady into court and then it would be speedily made manifest whether she was still a free agent or not. With this in view, and with possibly a knowledge that the bill rested on shaky foundations as to both facts and law, there was no great difficult experienced in bring about an interview between two judicious friends representing both families.
The next step was to ascertain the state of mind of the young folks. They were brought together yesterday morning in the office of Judy Cady, opposite the Corcoran building, on F street. Mr. Grassie Bulkley's feelings needed no exposition. The tender light of true love beamed from his eyes as he beheld for the first time since the day of the marriage the face and form of his young bride. On her part there was more composure. With features slightly paled with a week's confinement and somewhat of medication, through flashes of color chased the lilies from her cheeks, in a clear, deliberate voice she stated in the presence of witnesses her position and desires.
This gentleman, said she, turning to Mr. Grassie Bulkley, is my true and lawful husband. He has practiced on me no deception, told me no untruths. I accompanied him to Baltimore and married him of my own free will. I still love him and have at no time ceased to love him. I am willing and desirous of living with him as his wife.
While she was speaking young Bulkley, scarcely able to restrain himself, crept nearer to his blooming bride, and as she finished and turning her beaming eyes upon the husband of her choice, held out her hands, seized her in his arms. The younger witness considerately turned away and a bald-headed old lawyer, who thinks he is the hardest-hearted, flintiest, coldest, most immovable rock of ages in the United Sates, fairly sobbed into an enormous pocket handkerchief, blew his nose tremendously and then fell industriously to wiping his glasses as he thought of the days when he was young.
The result of the meeting, of course, was the immediate withdrawal of the bill for divorce. A Post reporter interviewed Dr. Bulkley last evening concerning the whole subject.
Yes, said he, the suit for divorce is withdrawn. The young people had an interview this morning for the first time since their separation on the day of the marriage and there was no doubt left as to their uncontrolled purpose to live together. Accordingly they are doing so, as I hear. They went at once to the house of a mutual friend, near Dupont Circle. Of course the withdrawal of the suit, coupled with the uncontrolled action today, shows whether or not my son was guilty of deception, coercion or any intentional fraud, and here the matter must end on my part.
Judge Hillyer was invisible last evening, but those who know him well say that he will not long play the obdurate father to his only daughter. Of course the bride and groom were carefully secluded from the public eye, but an intimate friend of the young couple says that they will shortly make a wedding tour of considerable duration throughout the South. Mrs. Bulkley's trousseau is in perfect condition and but a few days will be needed for preparation. Shortly after their return, it is said, they will set up an establishment in one of the beautiful new houses just completed at the corner of Fifteenth and O Streets by Judge Hillyer and as both fathers have very capacious and very well-lined pockets, the wolf will never show his cruel fangs at the young folks' door.
Senator Stewart, who has been Miss Hillyer's legal adviser, was found in his cozy study at 1707 Rhode Island Avenue last night. It has the effect of settling the entire matter, was his response to the first question propounded. All legal proceedings are stopped, and the young people will live together.
What were the circumstances?
Mr. Hillyer and his counsel acted, they understood, according to the desires of the young lady in commencing proceedings to annul the marriage. The parents and counsel of the young man, Bulkley, expressed a strong desire that the marriage should be annulled if that were the desire of the young lady. It was thought best by those having charge on both sides that the young people should meet and have a free conversation, and then the case should be prosecuted or dismissed, as the young lady should desire after such meeting. The meeting took place at Judge Cady's office, and after the interview, the young lady informed Judge Cady and myself that she desired to have the case dismissed and to live with Mr. Bulkley as his wife.
What are their plans for the future?
I can't say where they intend to live or what their plans are. The marriage, under the circumstances, has been the occasion of unhappiness and regret, but in extenuation it must be borne in mind that both of the parties are young and inexperienced. They are also of good family, well educated and intelligent; the world is before them, and there is no reason why they may not make everybody rejoice by their future prosperity and happiness. That is certainly the wish of their friends; they can have no enemies.
The Washington Post December 30 1887
Bulkley Gets His Bride
She Accepts Him as Her Husband of Her Own Free Will
The Matter Arranged in a Lawyer's Office and the Suit to Annul the Marriage Quickly Withdrawn
What the Parents Say
Last night Mrs. Grassie Bulkley, nee Bessie Hillyer, accompanied her husband as his acknowledged wife to the house of a mutual friend near Dupont Circle. In this one sentence is condensed the story of a three-volume novel.
A week ago last Tuesday morning, Miss Bessie Hillyer, the fiancee of Mr. W.L. Trenholm, son of the Comptroller of the Currency, left her father's house on Massachusetts Avenue, met Grassie Bulkley, son of Dr. J.W. Bulkley, by appointment and accompanied him to Baltimore, where they were married in the presence of one witness, Mr. Antonia Nogueiras. They immediately returned to Washington, the young lady going to her father's house to break the news and the youthful husband returning likewise to his home. The whole affair was a thunderbolt from a comparatively clear sky in social circles and the ceaseless tongue of gossip wagged faster than ever when the elopement was followed after a week's delay by the filing of a bill for divorce by the young lady's father, with her alleged consent, in which bill fraudulent artifice, misrepresentation, threats and various other offenses were charged against the defendant. This summary proceeding brought matters to a crisis at once. While Judge Hillyer's anger had in no degree abated, his prudence was perhaps appealed to by the knowledge that a writ of habeas corpus would quickly bring the young lady into court and then it would be speedily made manifest whether she was still a free agent or not. With this in view, and with possibly a knowledge that the bill rested on shaky foundations as to both facts and law, there was no great difficult experienced in bring about an interview between two judicious friends representing both families.
The next step was to ascertain the state of mind of the young folks. They were brought together yesterday morning in the office of Judy Cady, opposite the Corcoran building, on F street. Mr. Grassie Bulkley's feelings needed no exposition. The tender light of true love beamed from his eyes as he beheld for the first time since the day of the marriage the face and form of his young bride. On her part there was more composure. With features slightly paled with a week's confinement and somewhat of medication, through flashes of color chased the lilies from her cheeks, in a clear, deliberate voice she stated in the presence of witnesses her position and desires.
This gentleman, said she, turning to Mr. Grassie Bulkley, is my true and lawful husband. He has practiced on me no deception, told me no untruths. I accompanied him to Baltimore and married him of my own free will. I still love him and have at no time ceased to love him. I am willing and desirous of living with him as his wife.
While she was speaking young Bulkley, scarcely able to restrain himself, crept nearer to his blooming bride, and as she finished and turning her beaming eyes upon the husband of her choice, held out her hands, seized her in his arms. The younger witness considerately turned away and a bald-headed old lawyer, who thinks he is the hardest-hearted, flintiest, coldest, most immovable rock of ages in the United Sates, fairly sobbed into an enormous pocket handkerchief, blew his nose tremendously and then fell industriously to wiping his glasses as he thought of the days when he was young.
The result of the meeting, of course, was the immediate withdrawal of the bill for divorce. A Post reporter interviewed Dr. Bulkley last evening concerning the whole subject.
Yes, said he, the suit for divorce is withdrawn. The young people had an interview this morning for the first time since their separation on the day of the marriage and there was no doubt left as to their uncontrolled purpose to live together. Accordingly they are doing so, as I hear. They went at once to the house of a mutual friend, near Dupont Circle. Of course the withdrawal of the suit, coupled with the uncontrolled action today, shows whether or not my son was guilty of deception, coercion or any intentional fraud, and here the matter must end on my part.
Judge Hillyer was invisible last evening, but those who know him well say that he will not long play the obdurate father to his only daughter. Of course the bride and groom were carefully secluded from the public eye, but an intimate friend of the young couple says that they will shortly make a wedding tour of considerable duration throughout the South. Mrs. Bulkley's trousseau is in perfect condition and but a few days will be needed for preparation. Shortly after their return, it is said, they will set up an establishment in one of the beautiful new houses just completed at the corner of Fifteenth and O Streets by Judge Hillyer and as both fathers have very capacious and very well-lined pockets, the wolf will never show his cruel fangs at the young folks' door.
Senator Stewart, who has been Miss Hillyer's legal adviser, was found in his cozy study at 1707 Rhode Island Avenue last night. It has the effect of settling the entire matter, was his response to the first question propounded. All legal proceedings are stopped, and the young people will live together.
What were the circumstances?
Mr. Hillyer and his counsel acted, they understood, according to the desires of the young lady in commencing proceedings to annul the marriage. The parents and counsel of the young man, Bulkley, expressed a strong desire that the marriage should be annulled if that were the desire of the young lady. It was thought best by those having charge on both sides that the young people should meet and have a free conversation, and then the case should be prosecuted or dismissed, as the young lady should desire after such meeting. The meeting took place at Judge Cady's office, and after the interview, the young lady informed Judge Cady and myself that she desired to have the case dismissed and to live with Mr. Bulkley as his wife.
What are their plans for the future?
I can't say where they intend to live or what their plans are. The marriage, under the circumstances, has been the occasion of unhappiness and regret, but in extenuation it must be borne in mind that both of the parties are young and inexperienced. They are also of good family, well educated and intelligent; the world is before them, and there is no reason why they may not make everybody rejoice by their future prosperity and happiness. That is certainly the wish of their friends; they can have no enemies.
Age 18 years, 7 months, 17 days. Buried April 14, 1888.
The Washington Post December 30 1887
Bulkley Gets His Bride
She Accepts Him as Her Husband of Her Own Free Will
The Matter Arranged in a Lawyer's Office and the Suit to Annul the Marriage Quickly Withdrawn
What the Parents Say
Last night Mrs. Grassie Bulkley, nee Bessie Hillyer, accompanied her husband as his acknowledged wife to the house of a mutual friend near Dupont Circle. In this one sentence is condensed the story of a three-volume novel.
A week ago last Tuesday morning, Miss Bessie Hillyer, the fiancee of Mr. W.L. Trenholm, son of the Comptroller of the Currency, left her father's house on Massachusetts Avenue, met Grassie Bulkley, son of Dr. J.W. Bulkley, by appointment and accompanied him to Baltimore, where they were married in the presence of one witness, Mr. Antonia Nogueiras. They immediately returned to Washington, the young lady going to her father's house to break the news and the youthful husband returning likewise to his home. The whole affair was a thunderbolt from a comparatively clear sky in social circles and the ceaseless tongue of gossip wagged faster than ever when the elopement was followed after a week's delay by the filing of a bill for divorce by the young lady's father, with her alleged consent, in which bill fraudulent artifice, misrepresentation, threats and various other offenses were charged against the defendant. This summary proceeding brought matters to a crisis at once. While Judge Hillyer's anger had in no degree abated, his prudence was perhaps appealed to by the knowledge that a writ of habeas corpus would quickly bring the young lady into court and then it would be speedily made manifest whether she was still a free agent or not. With this in view, and with possibly a knowledge that the bill rested on shaky foundations as to both facts and law, there was no great difficult experienced in bring about an interview between two judicious friends representing both families.
The next step was to ascertain the state of mind of the young folks. They were brought together yesterday morning in the office of Judy Cady, opposite the Corcoran building, on F street. Mr. Grassie Bulkley's feelings needed no exposition. The tender light of true love beamed from his eyes as he beheld for the first time since the day of the marriage the face and form of his young bride. On her part there was more composure. With features slightly paled with a week's confinement and somewhat of medication, through flashes of color chased the lilies from her cheeks, in a clear, deliberate voice she stated in the presence of witnesses her position and desires.
This gentleman, said she, turning to Mr. Grassie Bulkley, is my true and lawful husband. He has practiced on me no deception, told me no untruths. I accompanied him to Baltimore and married him of my own free will. I still love him and have at no time ceased to love him. I am willing and desirous of living with him as his wife.
While she was speaking young Bulkley, scarcely able to restrain himself, crept nearer to his blooming bride, and as she finished and turning her beaming eyes upon the husband of her choice, held out her hands, seized her in his arms. The younger witness considerately turned away and a bald-headed old lawyer, who thinks he is the hardest-hearted, flintiest, coldest, most immovable rock of ages in the United Sates, fairly sobbed into an enormous pocket handkerchief, blew his nose tremendously and then fell industriously to wiping his glasses as he thought of the days when he was young.
The result of the meeting, of course, was the immediate withdrawal of the bill for divorce. A Post reporter interviewed Dr. Bulkley last evening concerning the whole subject.
Yes, said he, the suit for divorce is withdrawn. The young people had an interview this morning for the first time since their separation on the day of the marriage and there was no doubt left as to their uncontrolled purpose to live together. Accordingly they are doing so, as I hear. They went at once to the house of a mutual friend, near Dupont Circle. Of course the withdrawal of the suit, coupled with the uncontrolled action today, shows whether or not my son was guilty of deception, coercion or any intentional fraud, and here the matter must end on my part.
Judge Hillyer was invisible last evening, but those who know him well say that he will not long play the obdurate father to his only daughter. Of course the bride and groom were carefully secluded from the public eye, but an intimate friend of the young couple says that they will shortly make a wedding tour of considerable duration throughout the South. Mrs. Bulkley's trousseau is in perfect condition and but a few days will be needed for preparation. Shortly after their return, it is said, they will set up an establishment in one of the beautiful new houses just completed at the corner of Fifteenth and O Streets by Judge Hillyer and as both fathers have very capacious and very well-lined pockets, the wolf will never show his cruel fangs at the young folks' door.
Senator Stewart, who has been Miss Hillyer's legal adviser, was found in his cozy study at 1707 Rhode Island Avenue last night. It has the effect of settling the entire matter, was his response to the first question propounded. All legal proceedings are stopped, and the young people will live together.
What were the circumstances?
Mr. Hillyer and his counsel acted, they understood, according to the desires of the young lady in commencing proceedings to annul the marriage. The parents and counsel of the young man, Bulkley, expressed a strong desire that the marriage should be annulled if that were the desire of the young lady. It was thought best by those having charge on both sides that the young people should meet and have a free conversation, and then the case should be prosecuted or dismissed, as the young lady should desire after such meeting. The meeting took place at Judge Cady's office, and after the interview, the young lady informed Judge Cady and myself that she desired to have the case dismissed and to live with Mr. Bulkley as his wife.
What are their plans for the future?
I can't say where they intend to live or what their plans are. The marriage, under the circumstances, has been the occasion of unhappiness and regret, but in extenuation it must be borne in mind that both of the parties are young and inexperienced. They are also of good family, well educated and intelligent; the world is before them, and there is no reason why they may not make everybody rejoice by their future prosperity and happiness. That is certainly the wish of their friends; they can have no enemies.
The Washington Post December 30 1887
Bulkley Gets His Bride
She Accepts Him as Her Husband of Her Own Free Will
The Matter Arranged in a Lawyer's Office and the Suit to Annul the Marriage Quickly Withdrawn
What the Parents Say
Last night Mrs. Grassie Bulkley, nee Bessie Hillyer, accompanied her husband as his acknowledged wife to the house of a mutual friend near Dupont Circle. In this one sentence is condensed the story of a three-volume novel.
A week ago last Tuesday morning, Miss Bessie Hillyer, the fiancee of Mr. W.L. Trenholm, son of the Comptroller of the Currency, left her father's house on Massachusetts Avenue, met Grassie Bulkley, son of Dr. J.W. Bulkley, by appointment and accompanied him to Baltimore, where they were married in the presence of one witness, Mr. Antonia Nogueiras. They immediately returned to Washington, the young lady going to her father's house to break the news and the youthful husband returning likewise to his home. The whole affair was a thunderbolt from a comparatively clear sky in social circles and the ceaseless tongue of gossip wagged faster than ever when the elopement was followed after a week's delay by the filing of a bill for divorce by the young lady's father, with her alleged consent, in which bill fraudulent artifice, misrepresentation, threats and various other offenses were charged against the defendant. This summary proceeding brought matters to a crisis at once. While Judge Hillyer's anger had in no degree abated, his prudence was perhaps appealed to by the knowledge that a writ of habeas corpus would quickly bring the young lady into court and then it would be speedily made manifest whether she was still a free agent or not. With this in view, and with possibly a knowledge that the bill rested on shaky foundations as to both facts and law, there was no great difficult experienced in bring about an interview between two judicious friends representing both families.
The next step was to ascertain the state of mind of the young folks. They were brought together yesterday morning in the office of Judy Cady, opposite the Corcoran building, on F street. Mr. Grassie Bulkley's feelings needed no exposition. The tender light of true love beamed from his eyes as he beheld for the first time since the day of the marriage the face and form of his young bride. On her part there was more composure. With features slightly paled with a week's confinement and somewhat of medication, through flashes of color chased the lilies from her cheeks, in a clear, deliberate voice she stated in the presence of witnesses her position and desires.
This gentleman, said she, turning to Mr. Grassie Bulkley, is my true and lawful husband. He has practiced on me no deception, told me no untruths. I accompanied him to Baltimore and married him of my own free will. I still love him and have at no time ceased to love him. I am willing and desirous of living with him as his wife.
While she was speaking young Bulkley, scarcely able to restrain himself, crept nearer to his blooming bride, and as she finished and turning her beaming eyes upon the husband of her choice, held out her hands, seized her in his arms. The younger witness considerately turned away and a bald-headed old lawyer, who thinks he is the hardest-hearted, flintiest, coldest, most immovable rock of ages in the United Sates, fairly sobbed into an enormous pocket handkerchief, blew his nose tremendously and then fell industriously to wiping his glasses as he thought of the days when he was young.
The result of the meeting, of course, was the immediate withdrawal of the bill for divorce. A Post reporter interviewed Dr. Bulkley last evening concerning the whole subject.
Yes, said he, the suit for divorce is withdrawn. The young people had an interview this morning for the first time since their separation on the day of the marriage and there was no doubt left as to their uncontrolled purpose to live together. Accordingly they are doing so, as I hear. They went at once to the house of a mutual friend, near Dupont Circle. Of course the withdrawal of the suit, coupled with the uncontrolled action today, shows whether or not my son was guilty of deception, coercion or any intentional fraud, and here the matter must end on my part.
Judge Hillyer was invisible last evening, but those who know him well say that he will not long play the obdurate father to his only daughter. Of course the bride and groom were carefully secluded from the public eye, but an intimate friend of the young couple says that they will shortly make a wedding tour of considerable duration throughout the South. Mrs. Bulkley's trousseau is in perfect condition and but a few days will be needed for preparation. Shortly after their return, it is said, they will set up an establishment in one of the beautiful new houses just completed at the corner of Fifteenth and O Streets by Judge Hillyer and as both fathers have very capacious and very well-lined pockets, the wolf will never show his cruel fangs at the young folks' door.
Senator Stewart, who has been Miss Hillyer's legal adviser, was found in his cozy study at 1707 Rhode Island Avenue last night. It has the effect of settling the entire matter, was his response to the first question propounded. All legal proceedings are stopped, and the young people will live together.
What were the circumstances?
Mr. Hillyer and his counsel acted, they understood, according to the desires of the young lady in commencing proceedings to annul the marriage. The parents and counsel of the young man, Bulkley, expressed a strong desire that the marriage should be annulled if that were the desire of the young lady. It was thought best by those having charge on both sides that the young people should meet and have a free conversation, and then the case should be prosecuted or dismissed, as the young lady should desire after such meeting. The meeting took place at Judge Cady's office, and after the interview, the young lady informed Judge Cady and myself that she desired to have the case dismissed and to live with Mr. Bulkley as his wife.
What are their plans for the future?
I can't say where they intend to live or what their plans are. The marriage, under the circumstances, has been the occasion of unhappiness and regret, but in extenuation it must be borne in mind that both of the parties are young and inexperienced. They are also of good family, well educated and intelligent; the world is before them, and there is no reason why they may not make everybody rejoice by their future prosperity and happiness. That is certainly the wish of their friends; they can have no enemies.
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