Marriages (January 19)

W.G. Brant and Mrs. Eunice Holcomb were married at Susquehanna, Pa., the 10th of Sept.  They will leave Monday, the 28th for Brooklyn, where Mrs. Brant is in the employ  K.E. Bunnell [1896]

 

Married at the home of the bride's parents, in Guilford, N.Y. [Chenango Co.], by Rev. A. W. Ashley, on Jan. 31st, Grant Tiffany, of Arctic and Paulina H. Frank, of Guilford.  [1894]

 

Married at the home of the bride, Sharon Centre, Potter Co., Pa., Jan. 17, 1893, by Rev. Mr. Kenyon, Ira W. Bixby, Jr., of Bainbridge, N.Y. [Chenango Co.], and Miss Lura M. Nichols. 

 

Noticeable among the social events of the past week was the quiet and pretty wedding of Miss Emma B. Wheeler to Mr. Byron Lee Bixby, of Sharon Centre, Potter county, Pa., on Wednesday evening, Jan. 29th, at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Garret Wheeler, of Albany street.  Upwards of seventy guests were comfortably seated through the parlors when, promptly at 7:30 o'clock, the bride and groom, preceded by Miss Luella Hovey, bridesmaid, and Mr. Pratt, a half-brother of the groom as best man, slowly marched to the beautiful strains of the wedding march through to the back parlor and took their places under a very pretty evergreen arch appropriately lettered "B&W.--1896" where the ceremony was quickly performed by Rev. C.B. Parsons.  The bride wore a gown of light blue silk trimmed with white lace, and carried a bouquet of white roses, while the groom wore the usual costume of black.  After congratulations were over, the company repaired to the dining room, where the tables were in waiting with their load of luxuries.  The evening quickly sped, and not until a late hour did the company depart, leaving with Mr. and Mrs. Bixby many valuable and beautiful presents as tokens of their esteem.  Mr. and Mrs. Bixby will make their home in Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] for the present. 

 

Mrs. Lillian Johnson of Endicott, has announced the marriage of her daughter Dorothy Lillian Johnson to Ralph John Reed of Binghamton [Broome Co., NY] Saturday night April 5th in the Manse of the First Presbyterian church.  The ceremony as performed by the Rev. R. Paul Schearer the pastor.  Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brown of Endicott were the attendants.  Mr. and Mrs. Reed will reside at No. 14 Way street, Binghamton.  Both Mrs. Reed and Mrs. Brown are nieces of James Purvis.  [Bainbridge Republican, Apr. 10, 1924]