The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-11-07
Popular Paducah Writer Mar
ries Henry Horace Cleugh.
He Owns u Gold Mine in British Col
umbia-Iiis Gift to the
Bride.
ROMANCE BEGAN IN NEW YORK

A most OF frlendS OF MISS Eugene
CLARK, of Ninth and Clay streets, Pa
ducah, viii be surprised to learn that
she is now Mrs Henry Horace Cleugh
Of Regina, British Columbia. The
announcement of her marriage was
received this morning by her mother
and a few friends.
Miss Clark left Paducah several
weeks ago. accompanied by Miss May
V. Patterson, for San Francisco, as
delegates from Kentucky to the ma
tional convention of the Daughters
OF the Confederacy. When the con-
vention was over Miss Patterson left
for Texas to visit, and Miss Clark
for British Columbia to visit friends.
The friend was sister OF her fiance,
Mr.. Henry Horace Clel9gh.
The Wedding had been set fon this
month in Paducah. and Miss Clarks
rousseau was being prepared. Ur-
sent business reasons prompted her
fiance to ask that the ceremony be
performed there, and on last Tues
day, October 81, Miss Clark and M.
Cleugh were quietly married at the
ST. Paul Episcopal church at Regina
The wedding was the elimination
of a romance which began in New
York several years ago, when they
became acquainted through mutual
friends. Mr.. Cleugh I'm Chicago last
summer attempted to induce his
fiancee to have the ceremony perform
ed there, but was put off until The
latter part of November. Mr.. Cleugh
ound it imperative that heI remain
in British Columbia. however, SO the
ceremony was performed there, rath-
Ell than postpone 1t until spring.
A brief biography of Mr.. Cleush.
from British Columbia to the Sun
says.
"Mr C,eugh is the owner of rich
gold mine in British Columbia, and
is a man of much prominence. He
has been twice offered the nominal \
ton as a member of parliament, but
declined on account of his business
interests keeping him at home, He
is an officer in the royal Canadian ar
tillery, and is son and grandson of
prominent officers in the British navy
"One of the groom's gifts to the
bride was generous bank check AL
so a locket made of gold from his
mine, carved with the coat of arms
and. the motto of his family, and con-
tanning a lock of hair from the head
OF Bonnie Prince Cha;i,e,' the most
owed of all Scottish kings. The lock
of hair is family heirloom, having
been given by'the king to lady Of
his court. who married into the FAM
Ay.
Mr. Cleugh will go to his mine
N the Cariboo Mountains for the
winter, and as the winter will be too
severe for his bride Mis- Cleugh is
10 go to Paducah this month to spend
he winter with her mother"
Mrs Cleugh comes of one of Pa
.ucah's oldest and best known famI-
ies. As a poet and writer OF prose
she ranks among the br ghtest OF
Kentucky's winters and is a gifted
woman. She has taaveled extensive
y, met many prominent people, and
is descendent OF George Rogers
Clark on her fathers side. and from
he celebrated French family Reneau
IN her mothers side She is of strik-
ng personality and most gracious
manner with touch of the French
Vacity.
The wedding here was to have
heen very elaborate affair. The
Goods for the wedding gown is of
imported ivory brocade satin, said to
be one of the handsomest pieces eve,
seen in Paducah.
As Miss Clark. Mrs CIeugh at
tracted much attention at the St.
Louis exposition last year by an orig
NAL poem on the Louisiana Purchase
read Reneau Day, and both her prose
nj poetry have been widely read ami
! dmired She Is one or three taaent-
90 sisters the youngest being Mrs
James Young, who has achieved sue
cess on the stage as Lillan Lancas-
| Ter, The other sister VI ss Henre
Clark, married Mr., Wolkewitz de-
soendant of the Polish nobility and
lives in 81. Louis,