The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-22
THE LETTERS OF A
HAPPY / YOUNG BRIDE
Miss cIough, Who EIoped to Be-
come Mrs. Jack McDermot;.
WRITES MOTHER AND FRIEND
Some of the Clothes She Wore Were
from Trousseu Prepared TO Mari,
Another Mantle Groom also
Happy Over The Results.
Special Dispatch % The Times)

(Special Dispatch % The Times)
SUFFOLK, VA, october 2l.-There was.
news t6-aay from Mr.. Jack T. McDer-
mott and bride, who was seventeen-year-
cid Anne C!ough. Word came IN the
share Of letters t. Miss Maud Edney, a
close friend of the ch Id bride, and also
10. tn. g..ls parents. The parental
epistles were enclosed in the same en-
ysluie wi Ii those to Miss Edney. AT the
end cf each letter the girls nus oaho
write som ting too.
he eIopeu.ent was the nuptial sensa-
ii IN o + tn year. Ti.e sensation was
emma ized lecause Of the fact that an
,ia was soon to vel Mr.. Wallace Wal
ton. a young man of her parent hoice,
whom they had known since boyhood.
The clethisg Annie toak away. some OIL
it was made for her trousseau lor the
mar lag t. Walton.
Mr.. Walton was SO downcast to day.
tha. he lett town, his friends sE.y. Il Is
ii ,de rstood he went to " I'm nFes n, \.
LETTER TO MOTHER.
Annie's marriage is evidently very
happr so Tar. Here is the way she writes
o.. the night of her marriage:
Her mother burst into tears when the
letter was deli.ered.
My6D ar Mamma and Papa,-I know you
are n1ad with me but loved Jack, an
ha is not the young man you thought NJ
was am sorry YOU had that opinion
OF my husband. mamma. Loved him -and
would have given up the whole wo Ia
fo- h m. / hope you will forgive me in
time and be tappy without me. for | am
Ger ainly happy I was married ut Tar
boro this evening ats1:30 o'clock. hope
YOU will not be very mad. Mamma, pleas
nj AL my clethes-my black silk waist
an, my white one You can keep my
trunk and ali that is in it untilI send
fpf. it.
send my furs and shawl but II you want
ts2em. keep them.
s'amra. You need not think for one
momert that / am not happy. for I
apl. I fope nobody will say anything else
about Jack. for it is not so. and YOU
kIle W ha is my husband now.
s My dear mamma and papa I hope you
will forgive me.
Write me at Rocky Mount, y. C.
Goodbye. mamma and papa and all the
children. Don't be mad
(Si7nndo Mrs. j. f. MDER1OTT.
cky Mount. N c.
THE GROOM,S MESSAGE.
At the end of her daughters letter Mr..
sack McDermott pens the following
message TO Mrs c. S. Clorgh:
II became your dear daughters hus-
band at noon to-day. and wish to beg
Of you TO forgive her. am Very sorry
that tie people in Suffolk have any such
opinion of me as they have butt was
never given a chance to show who
vas. simply was mad in love with
Your daughter and / now have her for
my own. and will devote the remainder
ef my lifeEto giving her a home as happy
and pleasant as the one she has left for
me. Pardon me if have offended you
by this letter, but considered it my
duty TO Write
Very respectfully.
j. f. ATDERNOTT.''
TO HER GIRL 8CHUM
Here are some extracts from a letter
the newlS-,nadc bride wrote to Miss
Maud iidfley, one of her most intimate
girl chulns:
i promised TO write this evening. and
as have not been long at my 6estina-
lion / will endeavor to write. Maud, l
am the lappiest girl. Jack is sitting by
my side. He met me at Ahoskie. and
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