The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-09
TWENTY-FIVE HAPPY YEARS.
Rev. and Mrs. Foute Celebrate Theil
silver W edding.

Rev. ana Mrs. Fout9 Celebrate Tnelr
silver " edding.
The San Francisco Chronicle of recent
date contains an account Of the celebration
by Rsv. DR.. and Mrs. R. c. Foute Of the
25th anniversary of their marriage. DIR.
and Mrs. Foute have many friends IN Sa-
vanneh. DR.. Foute having been rector of
Christ church for two years or more IN the
seventies" shortly after the beginning Of
his ministry.
DIR. Foute was also stationed In Savannah
as a naval officer of the confederacy
during the war. He removed from here to
Atlanta and afterward to California. The
account, which Is as follows. will be inter-
esting reading to the friends of DR.. and
Mrs. Foute In Savannah:
REV. and Mrs. r. G. Foute celebrated
the 25th anniversary of their we'd
ding at their home, 2l09 California street,
last evening by a reception to invited
friends. ltwas probably the most pleasant
| event Of their lives, save one that occurred
in the home of Mrs. Gen. Phil Kearney
Mrs. Foute's aunt, at Narragansett Pier, on
Sept. 81, 1866
"Several hundred friends came to offer
| warm congratulations and to enjoy the
social festivity during the hours of the
reception. A majority were members of
Grace Episcopal church, OF which Rev.
DR.. Foute has been rector for several years,
but great many were friends not connected
with the parish. The smiling and gracious
couple VINO were celebrating twenty five
years Of happiness were assisted in receiving
their friends by Bis9op and Mrs. Nichols,
Rev. Charles Mason, assistant rector of the
church, and his sister, Miss Mason.
"The parlors were brilliantly lighted, beau
tifully aud tastefully decorated aud filed
with music from an orchestra, as well as bJ-
the thronging guests and the warm and
happy congratulatory spirit they impaired
to the affair. There were ferns and smilax
about the doors and walls, bouquets and
bits Of floral beauty here and there, and
banks of roses and lilies on the mantels.
In the dining-room was an elegant colla-
ton, which was served to the guests.
"a room upstairs was quite filed with the
costly presents that had been received
There was pearl necklace, sets of silver
table service of all sorts. costly articles in
silver and gold, pictures aud beautiful
articles of bric-abrac.
''Dr. and Mrs. Foute have seen much of
the world outside the bounds of parish
| labors. DR.. Foute, a native of Tennessee
was lieutenant In the navy when the war
broke out and he sided with the confed-
| eracy serving through the war. He was
on the Merrimac during that famous IRON
| clad's fight with the Monitor When the Ala
bama was sunk by the Kesrsarge he was
in France with other members of a detach-
ment waiting to take charge of the Ala
bama. While in France he met Miss Mary
de Kantzow, his present wife, who was then
attending school. Mrs. Foute was native
of Stockholm and her mother, a member of
the well-know n Kentucky family of Bullits,
was once famous belle in Washington So
cietY. When the war was over the
acquaintance made in France was followed
| by wedding. Mr.. Foute did not enter the
| ministry for several years afterward. He
was ordained in 1874 and came to Grace
| church in 1884"