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Widow and Widower Child Playmates, Wed
Grandchildren of Arthur Terwilliger and Mrs. Anna Snow Rejoice in Ceremony.
With their children and grandchildren around them, rejoicing in their happiness, Arthur Terwilliger, 65 years old, of Kirkville, and Mrs. Anna Snow, one year his junior, were united in marriage this afternoon at the home of the bride’s daughter, Mrs. D. Frank Hayden, No. 1319 Madison street.
The wedding was the simplest and most beautiful of ceremonies. No one was present except thos nearest and dearest to the bride and gridegroom. The young daughters of the house, the oldest a Central High school girl, hovered about “grandmamma” heartbroken at the blen of losifig her from their home and yet delighted at taking part in a wedding and realeing over their now grandfather whom they have known since they were babies. The bridegroom’s son was another member of the bridal party. Everything spoke of loving consideration on the part of the young for their elders and from the older to the young.
Mrs. Snow is the widow of Adelbert Snow, who died several years ago. She and her late husband were both brought up in the village of Kirville, went to school there and were united in marriage there. Mr. Terwilliger was their school friend and contemporary. The two families were friends and neighbors and shared each other’s joys and sorrows as folk in a small community do.
After her husband’s death Mrs. Snow made her home, with her daughter, Mrs. Hayden and there Mr. Terwilliger, left a widower, came often to call and talk over old times. He was always warmly welcomed, but when the members of the Hayden family began to suspect a few months ago, that he had serious intentions of trying to carry “grandmamma” away, they looked on his visits with less favor. Mr. Terwilliger had non only to win his bride but to win her amily as well.
But he reminded them that Kirkville was only a few miles away and thata grandmamma would be going back among her old friends where she had spent her girlhood and at last they were reconcilied.
The brid and groom elect wanted to slip away quietly and be married at the home of the Rev. John R. Woodcock, pastor of the East Genesee Presbyterian of which Mrs. Snow is a charter member, but her children protested. There mus be a real wedding – as simple and quiet as the contracting parties wished, but a wedding, a wedding cake, and a honeymooon had their way.
The bride looked like a white rose this morning when she talked to a Herald reporter about the wedding.
“It’s so simple,” she said, “that it’s really not worth putting anything in the pa[...]
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