The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-03-07
OLD TIME WEDDING.
The AntcBellum Wedding .of Georgia
Governor.

Governor.

.itiunin
The following delightful paper was
read by Mrs. T.. l.. Connally Thurs
day afternoon, ut Il meeting Of the At
lanta Chapter Of the Daughter, oi the
Confcdcracy. 1t contains a Ic,crip-
tion Of the wedding Of her parents
Governor and Mrs. Joseph +.
Brown, written by Mrs. Brown her
self.
1t is as follows:
\ wedding at any time is a matter
Of interest, as there was never say
ing more true than 'all the world
loves lover, and "as merry as mar
riagc bells. are the tones that vibratc
through the years that follow Il truly
happy marriage
OF such a wedding l tell you this
afternoon 1t occurred July t., 1917,
on the 2lst birthday of the bride, Miss
Elizabeth Grisham, daughter of Col
oncl Joseph Grisham anil Mary Love
Steele.
Colonel Grisham was mill own
or and merchant at West Union,
S. c., nine miles north Of l'ickcns
courthouse, and his wife was the
daughter Of William and Esther
Steele.
The groom was Joseph f.. Brown, a
young lawyer, who had moved from
South Carolina to Georgia, taught
school, and was admitted to the bar ut
Canton, Ge., and after attending
Yale school, he visited his sister near
West Union, about Christmas, 1876,
and met his wife, while spending the
night at her fathers house. The
next July he returned to claim her.
do not suppose the society columns Of
the keowec Courier, an ancient mem
ory, elaborated as We do in this day
the details of that affair.
The groom travelled from Canton,
Ga, to West Union in buggy, at
tended by party Of friends, Miss
Elizabeth Grisham, a cousin of the
bride; Jasper l.. Keith, Jack South
crland, Colonel Elijah NJ. Field. Of
Canton, and Colonel Stokes Gregory,
Of Dahloncga.
The attendants were Miss Grisham
and MIR. Gregory, Mr.. Field and Miss
Esther Love Steele, Charles Il. Broylcs
and Miss Elizabeth A. Norton. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. B. II.
Mauldin, in the Baptist Church at
West Union, at 6 p. M, (pcrhaps carly
candlclighD, the bridal party walking
to the Church, distance of several
hundred yards. where thoy found sew
eral hundred people waiting to sec
the bride in her fine white muslin
dress and the groom in his suit of
black
TIE HOUSEKEEPING FART.
And now wc come to the housckccp-
ing part of the evening.
The bride has left on record for
her children in the "kin book an
account Of the supper, in which she
says:
There was very large crowd of
people at my wedding, some from Ab-
beville, Anderson, Grcenvillc, Pen.
dlcton, Pickcns, Calhoun and other
places at distance, besides every one
living in circuit Of six or seven miles
was invited to come to the marriage.
There was no lack Of provisions.
There were twenty.seven cakes left on
Wednesday morning uncut. I carried
three with me to Georgia.
II gave one to Mrs. John w. Lewis
and one to Aunt Susan Grisham. Very
many of the guests sat up all night, as
the night was warm, land it was impossi
BILE to find beds for so many. Some Of
the country people who had to go home
efter supper to care for their stock,
etc., returned to breakfast SO many
good things were left at supper that
all were invited to.make themselves at
home until after breakfast. They
we're ready to accept and did.
Besides chickens, turkeys, bacon,
hams and roast beef in abundance, four
fat shoats were killed and cooked, two
Of them roasted whole.
"We made, baked and trimmed the
cakes at home-Aunt Malinda Watson
head cook, with all the assistance she
desired.