Smith - Randall Marriage 1901

SMITH, RANDALL, WELLS, BRYANT, PAYNE, JACKSON

Posted By: Fred Rucker (email)
Date: 12/12/2005 at 18:37:00

RANDALL-SMITH WEDDING

Full and Interesting Account of the Happy Occasion

Birmingham, June 19th (Special.)-On June 18th at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J.M. Randall, occurred the marriage of their daughter, Mary Elizabeth to Mr. Albert E. Smith, of Chicago. In the morning the weather man frowned down upon them, perhaps he was in love with the bride himself, but by noon the sun had his way and smiled with a radiant face at the thought of the coming event.

At half past two o'clock the happy couple marched into the parlor amid the sweet trains of Mendelssohn's wedding march played by Miss Marie Myers, and took their places under a canopy of green with a background of roses, carnations and ferns. The bride's sister Miss Alethea very beautifully sang, "Oh Promise Me," after which the ceremony was very effectively performed by Rev. Potter of Bloomfield. The Episcopal service was used. The guests were then shown to the dining room where a most delicious repast was served. Pink and white was the color scheme and the table was a vision of loveliness, the white linen being relieved by the pink and white ribbons brought from the decorated chandelier to the four corners and was laden with ferns and roses and carnations. From every nook and corner seem to spring the sweet odor of roses and carnations.

Miss Myers and Miss Alethea both looked charming in their white swiss gowns and each carried a bouquet of LaFrance roses. The bride was lovely in a simple but beautiful gown of white silk trimmed in appliqué lace and she carried a huge bouquet of brides roses, tied with white ribbon which reached to the bottom of her dress.
Miss Randall is a graduate of I.W.U. and has been a teacher in the High School at Mt. Pleasant for four years. It is a great loss to the faculty to lose so valuable a teacher. She is a most charming girl and has won a host of friends during her stay there. Mr. Smith can be congratulated for winning so fair a bride.

Mr. Smith had been a resident all his life of that place until 1897 when after graduating from I.W.U. he went to Chicago where he now occupies a good position in the office of the Piano Co. A more worthy young man cannot be found and there is a host of friends who wish them all the happiness possible to be found in this city.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith left on the evening train for Chicago, amid showers of rice, old shoes and highly decorated baggage, where they will be at home to all their friends after June 30th.

Many beautiful valuable and presents were received.

Among the out of town guests were Rev. and Mrs. Potter, Bloomfield: Mr. Tom Wells, Miss Julia McLane, Fairfield; Mrs. Howard Hildreth, Atlantic; Miss Lillian Perkins, Keokuk; Misses Reta Musgrave, Lottie Perry, Farmington; Mrs. Bryant and daughter Margaret, South Dakota; Misses Maud Swan Grace Chapman, Mrs. Brunk and Mrs. A.V. Blackford, Bonaparte; Mrs. K.N. Eldredge, Sioux City; Mr. and Mrs. Lauer, Winfield; Dr. and Mrs. Chas. Frantz, Misses Axie Lute, Katherine Jackson, Ollie Ambler, Marie Myers, Messrs. Tom Randall, Clyde Hoober, E.F. Smith, E.M. Payne, Mt. Pleasant.

(Witnesses on Marriage Certificate: Chas P. Frantz; May R. Frantz.)

Source: Unkown Newspaper Article (1901). The married couple are my grandparents.