The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-28
MARRIED IN A CEMETERY.
Mr. and Mrs Burbank Select a Strange
Place for Their Marriage.

Place for Their Marriage.
Nj. and Mrs. Henry B. Burbank were
the names of very happy couple wno
passed through Philadelphia Thursday
on the Western express which followed
the limited. They had just been mar
ried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn,
and were on their way to Nebraska,
where Mr.. Burbank, although young
man, is largely interested in the cattle
business. They had never met each
other until Wednesday morning last
although they had correspoIded for
years. At the fire in Brooklyn Theatre,
good many years ago, the father and
sister Of Mr.. Burbank, who was then a
young boy, were lost as was also the
mother and sister Of Miss Sadie King,
then of State street Brooklyn. Ar.
Burbank, in writing through a relative
for the particulars Of the death OF his
parents, had his letter answered by
Miss King, who, although then but
twelve years Of age, occasionally wrote
for her uncle, an undertaken IN Brook
lyn. This letter was handed to Mr..
Burbank, mere boy, to read. He
wrote back to thank Miss Sadie, and a
correspondence ensued.
Mr.. Burbank's father being dead, be
gradually came into the estate, and by
frugality and care he made it very
wealthy one, as we'll as going into the
extensive buying of cattle. he never
forgot Miss King, who, as she developed
into womanhood, had become very dear
to him. He wrote to her last October,
asking her if she would marry him. She
replied in satisfactory manner, but
suggested that, as the Brooklyn fire had
been the means of their meeting, they
should carry out the marriage ceremony
in Greenwood Cemetery, near the mSnu-
ment that was erected by the ciry of
Brooklyn to the memory of the unknown
dead who perished in that terrible holo-
caust.
On Wednesday Mr.. Burbank, accom-
panied by Col. Montgomery Green OF st.
Louis, an old friend of his fathers, DR..
Forster Bishop of Cincinnati: and his
sister, arrived in Brooklyn, and he met
Miss King for the first time at her house,
on DeKalb avenue. Carriages were pro-
cured, and minister who had been en-
gagged was taken up on the way, and the
party drove out Fifth avenue to the
cemetery. Under the massive and beau
tifuLy carved gateways the happy couple
went, out through the silent city Of the
dead, which contains the enormous num-
ber of 256, 125 bodies, cut across by its
beautiful lakes, traversed its shady ave-
nues until they came face to face with
the tall shaft which marks the resting
spot of 154 unknown dead who persisted
in that fearful fire.
There were eight IN the party, and the
group were quickly made aware Of the
solemnity of the spot by the bride, who
sad:
Harry, my mother and sister are
under that stone; We never found them:
He took her hand and answered:
land so are mine"
Colonel King. who was an officer IN
the army during the late civil war, said:
''Yes. and they are in onessaasS the most
GG,5a lsG.i tstS Z i for
tlRs dead. Sadie, you have selected this
SPOT to be married; are you readyT
The minister then arranged them IN
lire, facing the monument, and the cere-
mony proceeded, not a sound marring the
rites but the twitter of the birds. After
they had been pronounced man and wife
they walked up the grassy incline to the
shade, and the bride and groom knelt
while the clergyman offered up short
but affecting prayer. They all returned
TO the city, the bride and groom going
to an aunt's, Mrs. G. Barnum, at Yonkers,
where they remained until Thursday
when they left for his home IN
Nebraska.
To a reporter who rode from New
York with them on the train, the groom
said: ''Tbis was no advertising idea OF
nv wife's. Sac is, am sorry to say,
little superstitious, and for a long time
after we began corresponding, she
drcamt would be her husband, but that
to do so we must be married where we
supposed all that remained of our rela-
tives were buried. 1t is done, and |
am not sorry of it, although | am glad
none of the illustrated papers got there
to photograph us; in fact, l do not think
anynewspaper knows it. ."-Ph'ladelph1a
Inquirer.