Marriages (January 29)

At the home of Joel DeLong, Guilford, N.Y. [Chenango Co., NY], June 11, 1893, by Rev. T.F. Hall, Jerome J. Green, of Bainbridge, N.Y. [Chenango Co.,  NY], and Jane A. Grover, of Guilford, were united in holy matrimony. 

 

MURRAY-KNIFFEN:  In Guilford, Dec. 27, 1896, by Rev. M.S. Godshall, Earl Murray of Oxford. [Chenango Co., NY], and Miss Nettie Kniffen, of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY]. 

 

Married December 2nd, 1924, Miss Minnie Sawyer of Lebanon [Chenango Co., NY] to Zeph Thorp of this village by Rev. R.B. Whitman.  [Bainbridge Republican, Dec. 4, 1924]

 

Married Dec. 2nd at New Berlin by Rev. Dr. Gifford, Miss Marjorie Milliken of this village and Frank Turk of Sidney [Delaware Co., NY].  [Bainbridge Republican, Dec. 11, 1924]

 

The marriage of Miss Edith V. Porter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Porter, to Harrison H. VanCott of Schenectady, N.Y., took place Monday December 22nd at 4 o'clock at the home of the bride's parents in Clarendon, Virginia.  The Rev. Charles I. Flory, pastor of the Clarendon M.E. church performed the ceremony using the double ring service.  The bride's gown was of white crepe satin with Chantilly lace and pearl trimmings.  Her veil was caught with orange blossoms and she carried a shower bouquet of bride's roses and lilies of the valley.  Miss Ruth Myrtle Porter niece of the bride as flower girl wore a frock of pink crepe de chine and carried a basket of pink roses.  Masters John White and Corbin VanCott in suits of white silk were pages.  The bride's mother wore a beaded plum colored crepe satin. The groom's mother was gowned in midnight blue canton crepe with silver lace trimmings.  Mrs. Margaret Hunt Lawrence of Glen's Falls, N.Y., played the "Wedding March" from Lohengrin.  During the service "To a Wild Rose", "To a Water Lily" and a selection from "Sonnambula" and at the close "Mendelssohn's Wedding March."  The decorations were holly, mistletoe and evergreen.  The ceremony was performed in the sun room under a wedding bell; the house was lighted by white taper candles.  A reception and luncheon followed the ceremony and the bride's table was centered with a large wedding cake; plates were laid for twelve.  Mrs. VanCott was a former member of the Fredonia Normal school faculty of Fredonia, N.Y.  Mr. VanCott is principal of the Schenectady High School of Schenectady, N.Y.  Following a wedding trip to New York and Boston, Mr. and Mrs. VanCott will be at home after April 1st at 6 North Wendell Ave., Schenectady, N.Y.  [Bainbridge Republican, Dec. 25, 1924]