The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-30
ODETTE TYLER MARRIED.
A Gifted Actress Who Spent Her Child
hood in North Carolina.

ureS on the American stage, is married.
Her husband is an actor. r. -. Shepherd,
of Shepherdstown, w. Va. The cere
mony took place April LIST, but was kept
secret until yesterday when the New
York Sun contained the following:
1t was announced yesterday that Miss
Elizabeth Lee Kirkland, known as
Odette Tyler on the stage, had married
on April LIST, to Rein Davis Shepherd,
of Shepherdstown, w. Va. The wedding
ceremony was performed by DR.. RodericE
Terry ut his residence. 100 Madison
avenue, and the only persons present were
General w. w. Kirkland, the brides
father, and Mrs. C. J. Hatch, Il f ie,I
of the bride. Then the newly married
couple went to the Savoy Hotel, where
a supper was served, and afterwards they
remained there for several days. Miss
Tyler continued to act her role of Caro-
line Milford with the Secret Service
Company No news of the marriage
leaked out until Gen. Kirkland yesterday
announced the fact.
THE bride was at one time engaged
to Howard Gould, but that was broken
off. Mss Tyler made her debut about
eight years ago, and is a graduate of the
Lyceum School of Acting. She has played
almost continuously in the Frohman COM
panies. and some of the plays in which
she has appeared are Men and Women
The Consellor's Wife The Girl | Left
Behind Me- Shenandoah and The Gay
Parisians,' and since last autumn she
has been acting with William Gillette i'll
Secret Service Miss Tyler wrote two
books, Boss, the Virginian,' and Be
tween Two Angels She is of Southern
BIRTH although for sometime past she has
lived in this city. She is now in the
early th:rties Mr. Shepherd is the son
of the late Henry Shepherd, and lives
near Washington. Mrs. Shepherd will
accompany the Secret Company to Lon
don on May Bird.
This is the third marriage that has
taken place in the company during the
season. Amy Busbee married Eugene
Lewis, the lawyer; Campbell Fallon was
also married and Miss Tyler's marriage
preceded his.
"Shepherdstown, w. Va, April 81
Mr.. Shepherd and his bride arrived here
this afternoon to spend a part of their
honeymoon at Wild Goose farm, Mr..
Shepehrd's country seat near this place.
The wedding was kept a secret because
the news from being made public until
after they had sailed for Europe.
Mr.. Shepherd is of the old Virginia
family that founded this town and after
which it was named He was an actor
too and under the stage name of r. d.
Mclean starred some years ago with
Marie Prescott. He married Miss Pres
colt. and when she died few years ago,
I1 LID Loot Of
the late Henry Shepherd, who was one
of the wealthiest men in this State. From
his father he inherited fortune, which
included the magnificent estate of 4OO
acres known as Wild Goose Farm. Mr..
Shepherd is about SO years old and is a
fine looking man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Shepherd will remain
here until Thursday evening when they
will go to New York. On Saturday they
will sail for Europe. Mrs. Shepherd
will fill her contract to play a three
weeks engagement in London with the
Secret Service Company. and when she
has finished there. she and her husband
will return to the United States.
Mrs. Shepherd says that she does not
expect to go upon the stage again, a
statement which her husband endorses.
They say they will make their home at
Wild Goose Farm and settle down to
Fife of pastoral enjoyment. The bride
and bridegroom received cordial wei
come from Mr.. Shepherds family here
this evening"
Miss Kirkland is well known in Raj
eigh. having visited relatives here last
summer. She was the guest of her aunt,
Mns Clinton Crow. and came here to
take her rest between theatrical seasons.
1t was while she was here that Miss
Kirkland announced that she would star
the next season with the Secret Service"
Company. the scene of which is laid in
Richmond in war times, taking a part
created for her by William Gillette.
At this time her first book, an exquisite
little story entitled Boss had just been
published, and she was writing another
entitled Between Two Angels" which
has proved a great success The plot
of this is laid at Asheville and all the
coloring is from that rugged but delight
full country and thriving town. The scene
of Boss is laid at Hillsboro. Miss Kirk
lands birthplace. for she is a North Caro-
linian, and in Virginia In this simple
her early days and early loves, she de-
scribes the red hills and clear streams
and shady forest about that historic
place. For instance: THE Cameron
estate lay on the summit of hill, which
rose suddenly out of the broad low-lands
skirting the river. From the front win
dow one had an unmolested view of the
James which wound in and out of the
Gil
Miss Kirkland never forgot her child
hoods home and after leaving here last
summer she went by Hillsboro to spend
a day, just to look at the old homestead.
Being daughter of Gen. w. w. Kirk
land &C. S. Al and niece of General
Hardee, author of Military Tactics"
Odette Tyler has connections far and
wide among people most prominent in
the social circles of both North Carolina
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