Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-21
CLAIBoRNE-Cox.
A Virginia Wedding Of Widespread
Interest.

Special Dispatch to The Star
RICHMOND, Va, June 21-A maria pe of
interest throughout the Union which took
place this afternoon at the home of the
pride, 6U9 west Grace street, was that of
Mrs Katherine Cabell Claiborne, president
of the National Society of the Colonial
DANES, and Gen. William Rufin Cox of
Edgecomb county, N. C.
Inc ceremony was performed by Right
Rev. Joseph B. Cheshire, bishop of North
Carolina, cousin of the groom, assisted by
the brides pastor, Rev. Landon Mason. DID.
rector of Grace Protestant Episcopal Church
richmond The hall and reception rooms
were EMPOWERED in palms and flowers an
altar, with background of palms and flow
ers and covered with oriental embroidery.
being arranged between the front drawing
room windows On the back veranda a
string orchestra, screened with palms and
MOWERS, played appropriate airs
Two little nfeces of the bride Katherine
and Ethel Cabell, daughters of Mr. j. Aston
Gaoeii, candidate for attorney general of
Virginia, held the ribbons and were lovely
in white organdie over white taffeta with
Faienc1ennes trimming and pale blue rib
uohs. Dorothy Cabell. four years old daint-
ny clad IN white, was flower girl The
bride, in regal gown of pale blue satin
brocade, deliberately combined with Brussels
iace, outlined with embroidery of iridescent
piue beading and pearls, and carrying a
whlte prayer book entered the room with
her brother, ]. Aston CabeIl and was met
at the altar by the groom and his best man.
Col Allen Ruffin of Hillsboro. N. c. After
the ceremony an elegant collation. was
served, the decorations in the dining room
being American Beauty roses rose-colored
hoilyhocks and rose-colored candles and
shades
Fifteen hundred announcement cards
were engraved, but no formal invitations
were issued. The guests included the mem
bers of the board of Virginia Danes with
their husbands. and the relatives and near
friends OF the couple. Among those pres
ent were the sons of the bride. Mr.. Herbert
and Hamilton Claiborne, the older of whom
Is student of the University of Virginia,
and Mr.. Albert and Francis Cox, sons of
the groom. Later in the afternoon Gen.
and Mrs. Cox left for his handsome seat in
Edgecomb county, where they will spend a
rev days before going on an extended we'd
ding journey. Mrs. Cox will retain her
Richmond residence as a winter home,
spending her summers on her husband S
plantation.
Gen. Cox, who met his bride last summer
at the Virginia White Sulphur Springs was
brigadier general in the confederate
army, his brigade firing the last volley at
AppomattoX. He represented his district
for seven years in Congress- was secretary
OF the Senate during Cleveland's term, re-
tanning the Office into the next administra-
ton, and judge of the supreme court of
North Carolina. The bride, who is hand
some woman of charming personality, is a
daughter of the late Col. Coalter Cabell of
Richmond, her mother having been the
beautiful Jane Aston of South Carolina.
AS president of the National Society of
Colonial Danes she has made frequent
visits to the different chapters, In this way
visiting almost every state in the Union,
and has been more feted than any woman
in Virginia. She is also president of the
Virginia Danes vice president of the As
ISOLATION for the Preservation of Virginia
Antiquities, vice regent of the South Caro-
lima room at the Confederate Museum and
secretary of the Richmond Orphan Asylum.
a position involving the investment of its
funds.
Among her gifts is a chaste silver loving
cup from the Virginia organization. upon
which Is the date of her marriage. with the
inscriptions: Presented to Mrs. Katherine
Cabell Claiborne, their president, by the
Colonial DANES of Virginia in remembrance
Of beauty. grace and charm and of de-
voted and efficient service"