The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18
Notable Marriage viii Occur at
Mobile Wednesday Evening.
BOTH THE BRIDE AND GROOM
Are Alabama Born and Typical of The
Refinement of the South-Dr. Bon
durant Rising Young
Physician.

night at Christ church there is to be a no.
table wedding. Miss Annie Laurie Prince is
to marry DIR. Eugene DuBose Bondurant.
Miss Prince is the distinguished beauty
who has represented Alabama in various
functions of public character, and only
recently her photograph appeared in one of
the New York magazines as representative
of the refinement of southern beauty DR..
Bondurant is himself considered very
handsome man. He stands in the front
rank of the junior members of the medical
profession, and has national reputation in
connection with his success as assistant un-
der DR.. Peter Bryce, of the famous Ala
bama Bryce Insane asylum. Both bride
and groom are country born Alabamans,
typical of the good old days DR.. Bondu-
rant is of the faculty of the Mobile
Medical college and Is in full practice in the
city.
Remarking upon the expected wedding,
some one said Miss Princes beauty comes
from dual inher ance. On her fathers SIDE
she is a niece of Miss Alice Vivian, and
Miss Vivian derived her historic beauty
largely from her mother, the paterna
grandmother of Miss Prince. Miss Princes
mother was Miss Rhodes, who was herself
a beauty and who was not the only beauti-
full daughter of her house. Away down in
Choctaw county, several miles out from the
Tombigbee river, in the barren woods, was
found a mineral spring with strong cura-
tive properties. hotel was built there,
which finally grew to large dimensions, ac-
comm odating 600 to 700 people, with the help
of a village of cottages on the grounds.
All these people dined at the same time in
the same great hall. The remarkable part
was that they were congenial company
within themselves. For the most part, they
were New Orleans French, sugar planters,
like Mr.. Landry, from the parishes and MO
bile people. They went to Bladen because
the water was good, the air pure, the aban-
don grateful and the place easy OF access.
They went for the summer and they stayed
out the time without regret. once week
there was a grand dress ball, and woman
and man observed the rule to dress one
best The music was frst-class Four or
five other evenings the band went to the
ball room and the people followed and
danced and prcmenaded informally until IL
o'clock men and women, or ladies ana
gentlemen" as the parlance then stooa
No qualification of age then went. be
sides Baden there was built up three miles
away Cullom Springs hotel, for 400 guests.
Society of the vicinity contained, poth SET
Elements say LOCO visitors.
ON adjacent knobs, overlooking Baden
Mr.. Prince and Mr.. Rhodes built capaclous
permanent residences for their 1amllies III
convenient reach of their cotton planta-
t;ons In the woods of Choctaw, therefore,
grew to womanhood Miss Alice VIVIAN
later Mrs General Quarles, Miss hate
Rhodes, later Mrs. Colonel Ivey f. Lewis
(now of Birmingham, Miss Annie Rhooes,
the late Mrs. Sydney Prince and mother Vi
the bride of tomorrow Perhaps 1t IS at
this day a question how the most delightful
manners and the gentlest nature could be
impaired to girls, fitting them for punctll-
ious urban society, in Choctaw county, for-
ty years ago, or in Dallas, or Marengo as
to that matter. The fact was certainly
proven by the girls and the philosophy
may be in this, that African servitude gave
repose and security to southern domestic
life most elevating to the master class OF
race. No suspicion that disaster or evil
would ever disturb or disrupt the home and
its rights and blessings ever crossed the
mind of youth or old age, male or female,
white or black, free or bond.
Girls in the country, on the plantations,
were educated at home or in distant cities,
but the home life was the ultima thule of
peace and refined influences. The founda-
tion of the Southern Confederacy was laid
less on the dogmas of craftsmanship, true
as they may have been, less on the elo-
quence of the stump matchless as 1t was
and more on the devotion of the mistresses
of the plantation homes to their daily
duties and their unbroken felicities of ex-
the echo fresh from the southern homes,
the note of defiance which was as univer-
sal as 1t was honest and desperate.
Alice Vivian! For this girl of the forests
of Choctaw a river steamer was named. 1t
piled; the stream from the wharf of Mobile
to the hitching post at Columbus, Miss. I
have been one of 800 passengers aboard and
the cotton bales which the craft carried
at the same time were piled up towards
the smoke stacks in number, $500! Its
captain was "a man of Jacksonian firmness
an1 alertness-a figure much like the pic
lures we have of Andrew Jackson. He ran
q pole boat on the same stream, in the
same trade, before steamers came along.
Tie "Alice Vivian" was his own. If there
was travel, that boat got it; If there was
freight for shipment, that boat got it.
Poor Captain Kinney! He swung the Alice
Vivian out into midstream from her wharf
at Mobile one evening at dusk for the usual
round trip. pilot says he, II don't feel
right; If any thing happens to me, take
command yourself" In an hour or two
steaming up the river, Captain Kinney
made mis-step and falling from an upper
to lower deck, crushed in his skull He
had been thirty years ON the river without
accident, save this one.
Miss Alice Vivian married Brigadier en-
eral w. w. Quares, c. S. A, during tke
war He was a widower with two children
she died In New York two years, perhap s
after the war. Her beauty was pecu.iar
and famous. All women, young or old, re-
spected her; all married men laid Their
chivalry at her feet; few, indeed, were the
single men who did not court heBand more
who did not love her. She was not, intel
lectually, brilliant woman, but brillai
men and ordinary men alike never wearled
of her society; she was not graceful dan
Ger, as grace on the floor then went but
she had more eager demands on her favor
than any other woman on the floor In
stature she was somewhat above medi IN,
hair light rather than dark, eyes large,
brown and bright and covered with ignt
eye lashes, complexion good, teeth very
white, rather long, and, it must be- said,
expressive, for there is such human fe3@
ture as expressive teeth in man or wornazlz
Really, never defined the beauty of Miss
Alice Vivian. There was the pose of head
OH a classic neck that was very striking
The little inst parable hesitancy, even tcu h
of awkwardne SIS, which went with her