15 Minutes of Infamy

The children of Reverend William Christy, a traveling preacher from Ohio, were flabbergasted. Their father hadn't mentioned anything about marriage, and so when they learned that he had tied the knot in January of 1926, they were left speechless. William's wife had died three years earlier, and his children, though stunned, were happy for the 56-year-old preacher, even though they knew nothing about his new 48-year-old bride, Laura.  Not even William's son, Carl, knew much about the love affair. Carl was also a preacher, and the two men often traveled throughout Ohio together as members of the United Christian Missionary Workers, spreading the Gospel to anyone willing to listen. It was during one of their trips through southern Ohio when William purchased a house in East Liverpool, making an offhand remark that he was thinking about marrying a woman from Toledo. But Carl hadn't expected his father to go through with it; he first learned of Mrs. Christy on a radio broadc...