Sunday, October 6, 2013

Marriages (October 6)

At 8 o'clock Monday evening, May 16, Arthur L. Fagan of Kirkwood [Broome Co., NY] and Miss Mary M. Walker of Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], daughter of the late Frank Walker formerly of this village, were married by Rev. C.J. Taft at the East Side Congregational church in that city.  Mr. and Mrs. Fagan will reside in the town of Kirkwood, where they will be at home to their friends...[Notation:  May 1910]

A pretty wedding occurred at the home of Mrs. Addison Hotchkiss in Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], Tuesday evening, December 27th, when her daughter, Bernice Addie, was united in marriage to William Adelbert Driscoll of Greene [Chenango Co., nY.  Promptly at eight o'clock the bridal couple attended by Miss Helen Sherwood, bridesmaid, and Floyd B. Hotchkiss as best man, entered the parlor to the strains of Mendelssohn's wedding march played by Miss Hazel Sherwood.  The ceremony was performed by Rev. W.W. Watrous of Newark Valley under an arch of evergreens from which was suspended a bell.  The bride was gowned in cream wool batiste, trimmed in beautiful all-over and bands of silk embroidery.  She carried a bouquet of roses.  The house was prettily trimmed with green and white the class colors of the bride.  After congratulations a wedding supper was served. Both Mr. and Mrs. Driscoll are among out best and most favorably known young people and the many and beautiful presents showed the love and esteem in which they are held.  They will reside in Greene...[Notation: 1910]

The wedding of Miss Nina May Adams, daughter of Mrs. Catherine Adams of this village, to Floyd Bly Wheeler of Greene [Chenango Co., NY], occurred at the home of her sister, Mrs. George Perkins on State street, last evening in the presence of the immediate family and friends.  The ceremony was solemnized by Rev. Russel A. Gates of the Baptist church.  Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler will be at home in Brisben [Chenango Co., NY] after September 1.  [Notation:  August 1910]

Miss Eva Huffcut was married to Mr. Melrose Lathrop on the evening of October twentieth at the residence of the bride's parents in this village.  Both the bride and groom are residents of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].  The wedding, though quiet, was an extremely pretty one.  The house was tastefully decorated with autumn flowers and foliage, and during the ceremony the bride and groom stood in a bay window, surrounded with growing plants and flowers.  Guests to the number of thirty, including only the immediate relatives of the young couple, were present.  At precisely five o'clock the bride and groom entered and took their place in the bay window of the parlor, where they were met by the Rev. T.F. Hall of this village and the Rev. Philip Bartlett, of Long Island City, who together conducted marriage ceremony.  An interesting feature of the occasion was the presence of Rev. Bartlett, who is a granduncle of the groom, and is over eighty years of age.  The bride wore a pale silk costume trimmed with lace, and carried a bouquet of white roses.  After the ceremony and congratulations were over a wedding supper was served. a large number of beautiful and useful presents testified to the esteem in which the young couple are held.  The event was concluded with a bit of humor which caused much amusement.  A large party of the young people of the village had assembled at the station with inexhaustible quantities of rice to shower good luck on the happy pair when they should take their departure.  Shortly before eight o'clock a closed carriage was driven rapidly to the station and stood awaiting the train, being meanwhile pelted with storms of rice.  But when the train arrived the carriage was as rapidly driven away.  Meantime the bride and groom had been driven to Afton where they quietly took the train for the south.  The wedding trip includes a visit to Kingston, where the groom was formerly a student at the Wyoming Seminary, and to other points in Pennsylvania. 

Guilford [Chenango Co., NY]:  Wednesday evening William O. Nash, a retired business man of this place, and Mrs. Amy Ray, formerly of Liberty, but for several years a resident of Guilford, were married at the Episcopal rectory by Rev. H.W. Little.  The bride was attired in a gown of Mauve silk and cream lace, and wore a hat of the same.  Mr. and Mrs. Nash are at home at their residence on Main street.

One of the prettiest social events occurring in the vicinity of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] for a long time, took place last Wednesday noon at the pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Payne on Mt. Pleasant, in the marriage of their daughter, Miss Pattie E. Payne, to Mr. James S. Fitzgerald of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].   The ceremony was performed by Rev. Charles Sweet, a relative of the family, and who is pastor of the Methodist church at Afton.  The grandfather, Rev. Hiram Payne of Bainbridge, assisted Mr. Sweet in the service.  The bride and groom were attended by Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Lindgren.  The father's house is beautifully located, giving a view of the village of Bainbridge with its surrounding hills and the ideal weather of the wedding day, the pleasant interior of the home with its simple flower decorations, the assemblage of guests, the ceremony and the happy congratulations, supplemented by a handsome dinner, all tended to make this Wednesday the epoch of a charming home wedding.  The bride looked very pretty in a dress of brown with white flowers upon the corsage.  Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald left Wednesday afternoon for a bridal tour, the first stopping place being Greene, where they visited a cousin, School Commissioner, Charles Clinton.  Upon their return they will commence housekeeping in Norwich.  Mr. Fitzgerald's place of business is in the shops of the O.&W.  Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald were the recipients of many presents indicative of the esteem of their friends. 
 

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