Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-28
RETURNS FROM WEDDING
TO FIND MOTHER DEAD
Shock Experienced by George
town Girl on Coming Home
After Eiopement.

Mrs. Pauline Adele Oliver Meyers,
eighteen -yeaI-old bride OF few hours,
spent the night of her wedding in vigil
AT the bier of her mother Mrs. Margaret
oliver. who died last evening in her home.
al :a'11 Dumbarton averue, almost at the
very moment that her clipping daughter
was being united by nuptial ties. in Rock
vile. TO Harry Lee Meyers. the twenty
two-year-oId sutton of whom her mother
dsapproved.
Ill of pleurisy, but expected to recover,
Mrs. Oliver passed away III ignorance of
the wedding.
Pauline Oliver ard young Meyers, ac-
companied by Harry Mosher, husband OF
the brides aunt. went to Rockville in the
afternoon where the couple obtained a
marriage license, and were united in
matrimony by Rev. :. Il. White, a retired
Baptist minister, the ceremony taking
place in his home there. All returned TO
Washington and repaired to the home or
AIR. ana Mrs. Mosher. TBS Olive avenue,
where plans To break the news To Mrs.
Oliver and TO gain her forgiveness were
discussed.
Mrs. Mosher and her niece the bride,
Qetermined to go alone TO the home OF
the invalid mother ana tell her what
had happened. When they reached the
house Mrs. oliver mad been dead for
some time.
Mother Seemed Better.
Mrs. Oliver. who lived with her
father, Michael Lawler. and her daugh-
ter in the Dumharton avenue apart
ment was feeling considerably i'm
proved IN health yesterday morning.
The physicians gave every promise
that she would survive the serious i'll
ness which had kept her to her bed
Tor I'VE weeks. nursed by her father
and daughter
At about I o'clock Mr. IawIer re-
turned from his day labors and re-
Hevtd Pauline from attendance at the
bedside OF Mrs. oliver. She had told
her grandfather that she wanted 10
Keep an engagement and he left his
Work To oblig" her at an earlier hour
than usual.
When her daughter had been gone
about two hours Mrs. Oliver began 70
Morry about her absence She asked
Mr.. EaWler To seek for her
MT I@twier, not finding the girl in
tue nelghborhood. went To the home of
ms other daughter. Mrs. Mosher. and
there learned that Pauline had gone to
Rockville to be married. Mrs. Mosher
ana her husband We're the only con-
iidants of the niece, owing to the OBJ
'eH'ions Of Mrs. Oliver to the match.
Returning home. Mr. Lawler did not
consider II wise to tell the invalid
what he had learned. but assured her
that Pauline would soon return Mrs
Oliver had become worse during his
absence. and went into Mysteries when
Informed that he had not found her
daughter.
Death of Mrs. Oliver.
After while she became calmer
and apparently lapsed into a slumber.
In her sleep, however, she called the
name of her daughter. After prolonged
silence from the sick room Mr. Lawler
entered. to find Mrs. Oliver dead.
Mr.. Lawler himself collapsed, and did
not notify his other daughter of the
calamity. So when the bride and groom
went 10 the Mosher home all there were
in ignorance OF the death of Mrs. Oliver
The girl bride was very happy, and
danced about. The couple told of their
plans to take honeymoon trip to Nj
agara Falls as soon as Mrs. Oliver had
forgiven them and could spare the
daughter from the sick room.
The bridegroom is a son Of T. F.
Meyers, a contractor. The mother of the
bride vas the widow of j. +. Oliver, and
was thirty-seven years of age. Requiem
mass will me said for her at Trinity
Church. Saturday morning. Burial will
be in Holy Rood cemetery.