The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-17
Mr., LEIGH WED:S
IN PEPPER. Co.
Richmond Business Man Makes
Miss Jones His
Bride.

4 beautiful wedding was that yesterday
of Mr.. Egbert Leigh, Jr., a widely
k,.own business man Of Richmond, and
Miss Norvell Caskie Jones, at Piedmont
the handsome home of Mr.: and Mrs
Philip P Jones, parents of the bride, in
Culpeper.
I The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. LeBas Gross. of Rapidan, assisted
by the Rev. Landon r. Mason. of Grace
Church. Richmond.
The parlors where the ceremony took
place were decorated with banks OF ferns
and masses of ox-eye daisies The bride
had no attendants. but entered with the
bridegroom and was met at the altar by
the best man, Colonel Tazewell Elicit, Of
this city. She was gowned in white or
candy and Valenciennes lace, with long
t.!lc veil fastened by magnificent dia-
n,ond brooch. Her bouquet was a shower
of lilies, Of the valley.
The bride, a tall E1endar brunette
brought back to many present the picture
OF her mother, who was Miss Bette Nor
rsi, of Charlottesville, and 8. famous belle
ana beauty in ante-bellum days Of Vir-
ginia.
After the ceremony an old-fashioned
Virginia wedding breakfast was served to
fifty guests. The bride and groom left on
the Chesapeake and Ohio train for New
York. and will sail on July 23d for a two
1aonths' stay abroad. After October 1st
they will be at home at No. 5N West
F-naklin Street
Mr. Leigh is one of the leading citizens
Of Richmond, and his business connec-
tons extend all over the South.
He is president of the Southern Manu-
featuring Company. Of this city. di-
rector and member of the Executive Com
mittee of the Richmond Trust and Safe
deposit Company, director of the Metro
pclitan Bank, and until recently a direc-
tor of the First National Bank. He is
first president of the Richmond
Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Leigh was for six terms president
OF the Southern Wholesale Grocers' AS
sociat ton, and when he positively re-
fused reelection, was presented with a
magnificent service of silver at the ban
quet hello in the Jefferson Hotel here in
| 1896 at which were present the most in
| fluential business men of the entire
South, the heads of some SOD firms.
Mr.. Leigh was rendered the dlrector-
generalship of the proposed Jamestown
Ter Centenary, when it was anticipated
that it would be held at Richmond. His
| business ability has been paid many
tributes in the past few years.
Miss Jones is a niece Of Mrs. John P.
! MctsEire with whom she spent the past
winter. and was one Of the most popular
members of the younger social set.
Among the guests were Misses Ellen
Tashy. Alice and Lou Leigh. Mr. and
Mrs. Peyton Giles and Messrs. Junius
and Palmer Leigh. Carter Branch. Carter
Scott, John Blair. Tazewell Elicit, Ran
dolph Holiday, Moncure Perkins, Will
liam o. Shelton, James Caskie, Randolph
Tucker and DR.. and Mrs. Blanton, from
Richmond; Miss Gertrude Price. from AL
| bcn,arle: Mrs. A. S. Jones and Miss Mar
garet Jones, of the University of Vir-
Eiria; Misses Elizabeth Jones and Susie
Jlces, of Baltimore: Miss Helen Jones.
| DIR and Mrs. Conway and the Misses
Conway, Miss Mary Crenshaw. Miss Free
man, the Misses Halsey and Mr. Kirby,
Mcssrs. Holiday, Shackelford and Joseph
Wilmer, Of Rapidan.