Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-08-13
Freeman-chlId wedaIna.

| A very pretty wedding occurred in
/ Christ church last Thursday when DR.
/ Eliza beth Janet Child of this village was
married to DR.. Daniel Freeman Of Chi
cago. Rev. Charles Henry Wells Of Wood
( stock was the officiating clergyman. Rev,
1 George b. johnson of Burlington and Rev,
/ Franklin w. Bartlett of Rockport, Mass.
were also present in the chancel in full
vestments.
4 Among the guests present were "Grand-
I MAJ sarah Chapman. who will be 10l years
! old Sept. 6, Mrs. Lucy Richmond Of
\ Bethel, the aged aunt OF the bride, DR.. IL.
/ II. Mcintyre of Randolph. Mrs. Levi
Washburn Of Randolph, Mrs. George b.
Chase Of Detroit, Capt. T.. q. EmmOns OF
Quechee, DR.. Julia Foster and two chill
dren, Julian and Maud, of Butler, Penn,
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Freeman OF Boyalton,
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Smith OF Braintree,
Mrs. c. c. Sawyer of Randolph, Mrs.
John Sabine Smith of New York, Mrs. d.
b. Smith, Mrs. Helen Clark, Miss Ellen
Fsrgo, Miss Caroline Weymouth, Miss
Matte Gilbert. Rev. G.. Il. Gilbert and
wife and Miss Ruth Smith of Randolph
Center, Mrs. Nellie Doyle, Mrs. Henry H..
Denison, Miss Alice Denison and Miss
Ellen Nichols of Royalton.
Miss Cornelia Stickney of Royalton was
organist and rendered the Lohengrin
wedding march during the entrance Of the
party. DR.. Freeman is a veteran OF the
civil war and quite a delegation OF Daniel
Lille Post, G.. A. R., was present in a
body. The ushers were Guy Wilson and
DR.. Otto Greene.
Following the marriage ceremony
public reception was given at the home of
the bride on Pleasant street, the rooms of
which were handsomely decorated with
profusion of flowers, and refreshments
were served on the lawn,
- ..s.I sa. a ~ he lata Il
man and Elizabeth E. Child and has
always resided in Bethel with the excep-
tion OF her school days at the Randolph
State Normal school (where she became
acquainted with DIR. Freeman) and the
years of her attendance as a medical stu
dent at Ann Arbor. The Child family was
one Of the earliest to settle in Bethel.
Stephen Child, the great grandfather of
the bride, was a native OF Cornish, and
through his mother, Mercy Chase Child,
was closely connected with that branch OF
the Chase family that produced Salmon
Portland Chase, chief justice of the United
States, Bishop Philander Chase and Dud-
ley Chase, United States senator. Daniel
Child, grandfather of the bride, was one
Of the most prominent and respected res
idents OF Bethel in the first half OF the last
century. Mrs. Freeman's grandfather on
her mothers side was Warren Blanchard,
who served In the War Of 1872 Her great
Aaron Blanchard, was a rev.
dictionary soldier, He died In South
pomfret and was buried in Barnard. Mrs
Freeman was a cousin of Capt. Daniel |
Lille, for whom the Bethel post OF the G.. |
4. r. was named. Mrs. Freeman has long |
been a faithful member of Christ church, |
md is widely respected and esteemed.
DR.. and Mrs. Freeman are spending a |
ew weeks with w. II. Child at Cornish /
Flat, n. H., at the old Child homestead. i
where Stephen Child built house in liza, /
ince which time the place has been occu
lied by his descendants.