Tom Mix weds circus artist . Tom Mix , the cowboy film star , created a sensation when he wedded , for the fourth time , Mabel Hubbel Ward , a circus trapeze artist . The couple eloped to Mexicala , Mexic , surprising even their closest friends . Tom Mix and his wife after the wedding , with nine year old Thomasina Mix , his daughter . 26 February 1932 30s, 30's, 1930s, 1930's, thirties, nineteen thirties