The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25
TIE CROWNlNa SCENE OLA
LOVE IDYL LOFTY AND SWEET
After Tweniy-one Years of Waiting and Con-
secra'ion TO Duty Their Lives are
United
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| Greensboro, N. c., Oct. 23.-Marred
| III the morning, at the residence
| ct her brother, Mr. G. II. BenboW, ut Oak
Ridge, Gullford county, the ancestral
| home OF her torefathers and her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Benbow, late deceas
ed Miss Josephine q. BenboW and Rev.
w. G. Blair, pastor OF the Baptist church
at Boykins, Va. The ceremony occurred
at $3.50 o'clock a. M, Rev. Thomas New
| lin, of Guiliord College officiating, and
| i'll the presence OF large concourse OF
friends, relatives and neighbors of the
notably beloved contracting parties !
Among visiting attendants were: Mrs P.
b. Hackney, of Guilford College; Miss
Henrietta Hackney, of Greensboro; Miss
Jessie Geaves, of Wythevile, Va, and
Miss Lizzie Lancaster, of GibsOnVille.
Miss Pearle Benbow. niece. and Miss
Sallie Benbow, sister of the bride, deity
aud tearfuly gave her away, and after the
nuptials the bridal party were driven to
Greensboro. where sumptuous dinner
was served at the Benbow Hotel in honor
of the bride and groom by near relative
of the bride, Mr.. Charles D. Benbow, pro-
prietor.
The bride was beautifully costumed in
a blue gO-away gown, blue turban and car
ried a lovely boquet of pink carnations.
The happy couple left on an evening train
for a bridal tour North, and will return
to Boykins, Va, the home and pastorate
of the groom.
The above is the prosiac record of the
marriage of two people, highly esteemed
and gre9tly beloved. Aside from this and
above and beyond it. above us all God pity
us, is as sweet an idyl of loving consecra-
ton to duty on the one side, and unwaver-
ing cOnstancy on the other as poet ever
dreamed; romance equaling Scott s
brightest creations, an actuahty rivalhng
the inspired writer's great conception of
true love vixen the history of Jacobs SER
vice for Rachael was set as a lovers mo-
STAG, to adorn the sacred testament of Je-
hovah.
Twentyone years ago Mr.. Blair went to
Oak Ridge as a student from Danville,
Va. At the same school was a beautiful
girl, Josie Benbow: even then
the pride of home and the belle of the
school and all the country round.
There was love kndled between these two.
and upon the graduation of young Blair,
y
plighted, the young man asking marriage
after his graduation at college, the young
girl pledging troth, with the proviso that
she would not marry until her mothers
death Lightly the boy babe adieu with
the blessings of the aged and white-haired
parents. and pursuing his studies at Rich
mond College, he graduated there with dis
tinction. taking time once every year tol
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full companionship Of his beloved and the
uplifting influences OF her royal parentsI
and their sons and daughters After col
lege the now matured man spoke of mar
riage, pleaded for it. but reminding him
of her parents who yet lived to claim her
presence and attention, the sweet, strong
the sweetly strong young woman bade him
wait, or seek other fields for a wife. TheI
young man. still loving, determined to en-
ter the ministry and entered the Baptist
Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky, |
never failing during his four years course
to pay yearly visit to Oak Ridge, toI
worship there at the shrine of love and
domestic virtue An active servant of thel
Lord, an honored shepherd of the Masters
f1ocks for years, the man made his annual
pilgrimage, nor time nor circumstance
abating his love or causing her love for
him or her filial devotion to waiver an iota
either way And thus they lived and
lover for twenty-one years, and at last
today sees the fruition of their hopes. Last
year "Uncle jesse honored through
three generations of the children of men,
was gathered to his fathers, aged SO. Six
months thereafter the gracious mother inI
Israel was laid to rest. aged 80.