BLULER - HASTINGS: On Thursday evening last in St. Peter's church [Bainbridge, Chenango Co. NY] by the Rev. L.L. Weller occurred the marriage of Harry H. Bluler and Miss Lillian Hastings. [Afton Enterprise, Feb. 3, 1910]
Lewis E. Matteson and Miss Mildred E. Whitman, both of Masonville [Delaware Co., NY], were united in marriage by the Rev. A. Merrill, Monday, August 27. [Bainbridge Republican, Aug. 30, 1917]
The following account of the interesting romance of Captain Parsons taken from The Evening Leader of Richmond, Va., will be read with much pleasure by the many friends of the late Homer Parsons who was his brother:
Morris Manor, Otsego Co., N.Y., April 17: A pretty morning marriage took place here today in the Morris Memorial Episcopal Church the Rev. George Mead officiating. The contracting parties were Miss F. Blanche Masters, of Upton Park, who became the bride of Captain W.A. Parsons, of Vinita, Va. Miss Masters comes from good old revolutionary stock, she being the great-great granddaughter of Lewis Morris, one of the signers of the Declaration of American Independence on her mother's side, and great-great niece of John Quincy Adams, President of the United States, on her father's side. She is also a cousin of Dr. Lewis Morris, who last fall married Miss Clark, daughter of the Silver king of the West. There is quite a pretty romance connected with this marriage. It was way back in 1861, when Captain Parsons, then a beardless boy of only twenty-one summers, was making the rounds among his friends and relatives, bidding them good bye preparatory to starting for the seat of war, that he met for the first time Miss Masters, who was at the time visiting Mr. Parson's aunt, his mother's youngest sister. It was love at first sight. A few days after this accidental meeting Mr. Parsons left his home for the south. Immediately after the war Capt. Parsons' health being very much impaired by the hardships of his army life and liking the southern climate, came to Richmond and cast his lot with the people of the south; and in 1866 married a Miss Anna Wright, a native of Fairfax county, Va. After twenty-six years of a most happy married life, Captain Parsons was left a widower, and it was a little more than year thereafter that Captain Parsons, whilst on a visit north met again, for the first time in thirty years, his aunt. And then it was through information received from her that he learned, for the first time, that his love for Miss Masters was reciprocated. She had never married and had lived all these years a life of devotion to her widowed mother and invalid brother, who were both taken from her by the relentless hand of death within a few days of each other, and for the past four years she has been alone in the world occupying Upton Park mansion, the old Morris homestead left to her by her mother, with only a faithful old family servant for her companion. But alas, this information of reciprocated love had come too late, for Capt. Parsons had then become engaged to Mrs. Caroline Wesley, daughter of E.B. Wesley Esq., of Port Chester, N.Y., one of New York's millionaires, whom he married and eight years thereafter the hand of death again left him a widower. And now, although,Miss Masters is Captain Parsons' third wife, and he has passed his sixtieth birthday, he has promised to love and cherish his first love as long as they both shall live, and will strive to make her life as happy as possible. Immediately after the ceremony they took the train for the South, where they intend to make their home in the future. Captain Parsons is one of the best known men in this section of Virginia. His pretty home at Vinita is one of the most attractive on James River. For nine years he was sheriff of Goochland county and made a model officer. He has been an upbuilder of the State for years, having perhaps been the instrument of the settlement of more desirable homebuyers in the counties above Richmond than any other man. Captain Parsons is president and general manager of the James River Valley Colonization and improvement co., with offices at No. 810 East Main St., this city. [about 1901/02]
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