Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-01-27
THE MARRIAGE OF LIEUTENANT
GOVERNOR ADAMS

We are indebted to Hon. William Garrard
for copy of the Corsicana (Texas) Under,
containing an account of the wedding of Hon.
Jewett Adams, Lieutenant Governor of Ne
vada, to Miss Emma Lee of that city. We
copy as follows con yesterday evening,
January 10th, 1873, took place the grandest
event in the social circles of Corscana that
has yet ever happened. 1t was the marriage
Of Jewett W. Adams, the Lieutenant Governor
of Nevada, to one of Texas most accomplish
ed and beautiful daughters Emma Lee
of Corsicana Right Rev. Bishop Garrett
performed the ceremony at the st. John S
(EpiscopaD Church. By o'clock the invited
guests began to assemble, and before s o'clock
the building was comfortably filed, and
prompt to the minute in marched the bride
and groom with her father and mother and
one or two OF her most intimate lady friends,
while the organ was playing most beautiful
wedding march, The Bishop then performed
the real beautiful Episcopal ring ceremony,
the father, Col. L. II. Lee, giving the hand
of the bride away. Over the altar hung the
emblematic symbol of good luck, now so com
mon at fashionable weddings in large cities
large evergreen horseshoe, studded with
q white rose every six or eight inches apart,
representing the heads Of nails. After the
beautiful and impressive ceremony, the Bish-
op presented the bride with the handsome
prayer book he used while officiating The
wedding group then turned and marched out
to the sound of wedding march, and pro
eeeded from the church to the Opera House,
where everything was prepared for the grand
reception The bride looked sweetly beauti-
full, and was robed in a very handsome white
silk dress ordered from New York, with a
long, white flowing veil of tulle, wreathed
with lilies of the valley Her bridal orna-
ments, presented by the groom, were made
from the various colored Colds of his State,
interspersed with diamonds, rubies and pearls.
The design of the iewelry was that of fern
leaf, in remembrance of his wooing days, when
he gathered ferns with her in the wild noun
tains of his State and in California, while she
was there on visit The bridegroom looked
supremely happy, and well he might be, at
his success in winning 50 fair jewel, that
will so well and deservedy grace and orna-
ment a Governors mansion. He is very
manly, handsome looking parsonage, of de
cided military air, and rather above the me-
dunn height, light hair and long side whls-
kers. From his looks and appearance we
would Judge him a man some little over thirty
in age. He was dressed in a handsome black
cloth suit, with coat lined and faced with
white satin, after the San Francisco style,
and made after the best San Francisco work
manship At the Opera House the happy
couple received the congratulations of the
brides many friends that thronged the large,
capacious hall After which, conversation,
promenading and dancing to sweet music went
on until supper was announced, when all adj
journed to the Opera House Hotel and par
took of delicious and elegant supper. The
brides cake was the handsomest thing of the
kind we ever saw. 1t represented and was a
handsome and perfect gothic church in min
isture. All retired from the hall about II
o'clock, after bidding adieu to the bride and
groom, who left on the night train, to visit
friends in Northern cities, from whence they
will 90 to live in the State of which the groom
il Lieutenant Governor We wish them a
long and happy life.
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