The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-27
JEFF WALLACE IS
NOW A BENEOIC
Well-known Richmond Man
Webs Miss Hawthorne, OF
Lunenburg County.
WON OVER MANY SUlTORS
His Bride One Of Most Charm
ing Women OF He- Section
Of the State.

SOUTH HILL. Va. December cs-The
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. wedding. which YVES
solemnizcd at the old Hawthorne house.
just across the M~ncrrin River, in the
adjoining county OF Lunenburg vcstcr-
day ~ noon, marked the elimination OF
@ love story that Us almost archaic
For several years the lovely hawthorn,
girls, daughters OF Mr. James r. IIav-
thorne. have boon the bellies OF Luu.r-
burg county. The second daughter az
the Hawthorne house. Miss Ann. Haw-
thorne. though but Turned nineteen. has
reigucd in undispUted bclieshlp for eev-
eral years. a demi-biondc. slender and
graceful. Will exquisite colorinr. and
famed for her wit and yivacity. she has
oceu surrounded hy little court OF
sDtors. For year or two Tire gossips
haro been speo ulaung as 90 which Of Aer
sultors was the favored one.
Late In last January a brown bearls
| broad-shouidered man, no longer young
has checks tanned by the suns % forty
summers. was driving along the Iocn
Leven road ia tho chill of tile winter
evening. when Miss Anne Hawthorne
flashed past him in her trap Tile strange
man was accompanied hv "A well known
young lawyer OF the county relative
or the Hawthorne. vino bowed 70 hor
as SHE passed The strange man was Mr.
I Jefferson Wallace OF Richmond, general
agent in Virginia OF the State Iife Tn
surance Company az Indiana. who had
come to Southside Virginia on business
That night Le visited the HawthoII.~
house. and making a pretcXt OF solicit
ing her father Tor life Insurance was
/ introduced TO Miss Hawthorne. Then
began am earnest courtship. s. trip OF
two hundred miles. taken merely that
he might escort Miss Hawthorne 10 ID
class concert al Blackstone. convinced
the neighhorhood that Mr.. Wallace was
very deeply. determinediy in earnest. and
by midsummer the Eossips no longer
asked each other the name OF the for
tunate man. hut speculated as 70 tile
date OF the wedding.
The wedding day was set in tho second
week I'm May. and Mr. Wallace went to
the Tar West iu pursuit ~ Iris business
Ten days ago be started Tor Mount
/ Tabor. S. c.. 10 meet Miss Hawthorne
and accompany her 90 Chaptico 20 spend
the holiday season. Before they reached
irginia. however MI Wallace had per
suaded Miss Hawthorne to marry him az
once Mr.. and Mrs Hawthorne gave a
reluctant consent Mr.. Wallace drove
to Lunenburg Courthouse on Christmas
Eve 70 get his license ana ON Christmas
Day. at noon. in the parlors Of tic
Hawthorne house. Miss hawthorne be-
came Mrs. jefferson Wallace.
1t was a quiet home wedding ~ which
there Were no witnesses save tine imme-
date family of the bride and the o,d
colored servants. None az AR. Wallace. g
family were present. owing to the fact
that the marriage was hastily arranged
and to the indrm condition Of Mr.. Wal
lacc's AGED mother
Rev. Dr James Cannon. Jr. Of Black
stone. had originally been selected 20
tie tie knot. bvt he was unable TO come
and Rev D. ~ Austin. OF the Oakland
Christian Church, was called 500. who
married the couple according to the ritual
Of the Episcopal Church.
Mr. and Mrs Wallace Will spend two
or three weeks in Virginia partly .n
Richmond and partly i'm Lunenburg. and
viii then leave for the far West. After
the middle of March they viii reside on
Church I'm IN Richmond.
Mrs. Wallace. as Anne Hawthorne. Is
known and loved ail through Soutlsiir
Virginia and AIR. Wallace has host Of
friends having often visited the South
side counties in campaigns Of tine past