Marriages (May 5)

Johnson - Willard

Utica Saturday Globe, November 3, 1906

 

 

Frederick Leslie and Nellie (Willard) Johnson

 

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  The First Baptist Church was the scene of a brilliant society event on Tuesday evening, at which time occurred the wedding of Frederick Leslie Johnson and Miss Nellie Willard.  The auditorium was lavishly decorated with evergreens and pine.  Graceful arches entwined with running pine and surmounted by white doves spanned the two main aisles.  The pulpit was banked with evergreens and the ceremony was celebrated while the bridal couple stood beneath a canopy of green sheltering white doves.  The effect of the beautiful decorations was enhanced by the brilliant lighting of the room.  While the guests were assembling, Keith L. Brooks rendered two organ soloes:  The Bridal March and Angel's serenade, and Miss Florence Rindge, sage Beloved, It is Morn.

 

At 8:30 the strains of  Mendelssohn's wedding march played by Mrs. A.C. Latham on the organ announced the entrance of the bridal party.  The bride was preceded by the four ushers, Arthur Graves, Mason Aldrich, Charles Barnes and Addison Benedict.  Master Stanley Burdick, a cousin of the bride acted as flower boy and the ring bearer was little Miss Johnson, a niece of the groom.  As the bride and her attendant approached the altar by one aisle her groom accompanied. by his brother, Rev. Frank Johnson, of Syracuse, and by Rev. John L. Ray passed along the opposite aisle and met the bridal cortege in front of the alter.  The ceremony was performed by Rev. Mr. Johnson, assisted by Dr. Ray. The bride was handsomely gowned in Brusseis net over white taffeta and wore a veil caught with roses.  She carried a shower bouquet of roses. 

 

About 150 guests witnessed the ceremony and were present at the reception afterwards in the church parlors which were appropriately adorned in green and white.  An elaborate supper was served by Cateress Hickey.  The wedding presents were unusually numerous and beautiful.  The bride is highly respected by a large circle of friends.  Since her graduation from the Albany Normal College she has taught at Locust Valley and other points on Long Island.  For several years Mr. Johnson has been connected with the Star clothing house and is a popular and promising young business man.  He is  member of the First Baptist Church and a teacher in the Sunday school.  Their friends were fully prepared to give them a hearty send off but by a successful ruse the young couple gave them the slip and started on their wedding trip unmolested.  After a 16 days' absence they will make their home at 47 Birdsall street [Norwich, NY].

 

Whiting - Bunnell

1891

A very pleasant wedding ceremony took place at the family summer home at Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], Wednesday evening, when Mr. Hiram Whiting and Miss Maud Bunnell were united for life.  There was a large attendance, the reception was fine, and music by the St. Laurence orchestra and dancing helped to make the occasion a pleasant and memorable one.

 

Barrett - Lewis

Chenango Union, April 28, 1892

Last evening, at the Congregational Church, Miss Alida B. Lewis and J. Wendell Barrett were united in matrimony.  The bride is one of the best known and most highly esteemed of Sacramento's young ladies, and the groom, having lived nearly all his life in Sacramento, has a host of warm friends here, who congratulate him on his good fortune.  The church was filled to its fullest capacity by the friends of the contracting parties. The pulpit and platform were beautifully decorated with flowers and ferns, a very attractive feature of  the decorations being the artistic arrangement of palms that formed a background to the whole.  Promptly at 8 o'clock the wedding march (Tannhauser) was commenced and the bridal party entered, led by Harry H. Eaton and W.H. Delvin, chief ushers, followed by E.D. Olney and H.E. Martin, ushers.  After these came the three bridesmaids, Misses Georgia Spaulding, of Arno, Alice Nixon,, of Sacramento, and Lula Vance, of San Francisco. Then followed M.K. Barrett, the groomsman, with Effie Waite, maid of honor.  The bride was followed by her mother, Mrs. Kate B. Lewis, accompanied by the groom, John W. Barrett.  The bride looked beautiful in her wedding gown of Faille Francais, with pearl trimming.  She wore the customary bridal veil and wreath of orange blossoms, and carried a bouquet of bridal roses.  The wedding party was received in front of the pulpit by Rev. J.B. Silcox, pastor of the church, who performed the Episcopal marriage service in an impressive manner. A reception was given to the happy couple at the residence of Mrs. Lewis, at 726 O street, to which only relatives and immediate friends were invited.  The bride received many beautiful and appropriate presents.  Mr. and Mrs. Barrett left on the 10:50 Portland express for a short wedding trip, and on their return will be at home to their friends on Tuesday at their future home at 115 C street--Sacramento Daily Record Union, April 20th.

 

The bride is a daughter of the late Romeo W. Lewis, a native of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], who served an apprenticeship in the Chenango Union office, forty years ago, and was well known in Norwich.  The bride's mother is a daughter of Charles R. Breed, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], and is remembered as a former popular society lady here.  Harry H. Eaton, one of the chief ushers, was also formerly of Norwich.

 

Marriage Notices

Antimasonic Telegraph, July 29, 1829

In Columbus [Chenango Co., NY] on Sunday, the 12th instant, Mr. Charles Greenleaf, to Miss Mary Ann Thorington, both of that town.

 

Antimasonic Telegraph, September 30, 1829

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Monday the 28th inst. by the Rev. L.S. Rexford, Doct. P.H. Hard, of Oswego (formerly of this village) to Miss Eliza M. Randall, daughter of col. John Randall.