The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-11-13
THE THIRTEENTH
At WHITE HOUSE
Miss Wilson is Not Afraid of
the Hoodoo.
TWELVE OTHER WEDDINGS.
Great Interest Taken BY the Ameri-
can People In the EVent-The
Other Weddings That Have
Taken Place There.

Washington two weeks one of
the most interesting events scheduled
for this season will take place, and
that is the wedding of the second
daughter of the President of the United
States. Miss Jessie Wilson will when
she becomes the bride of Mr.. Frances
Bowen Sayre make the thirteenth
bride to have been married in the
White House. From now on specula-
ton will be rife as to the gifts, the
rousseau, the list of wedding guests,
ana the thousand and one things that
concern the young woman, who fol
lows bravely in her fathers footsteps
and says, We'll, thirteen always was
my lucky number"
Mr.. Sayre, who is to share with Miss
Wilson all the agreeable publicity OF
White House wedding, probably
cares as little as she that the wedding
will be the thirteenth to be celebrated
in the romantic old colonial mansion,
dear to all Americans, and known to
all Familiarity, as the White House, in
stead of the more stately and perhaps
dignifed name of the Executive Man
sion. In itself it is a romantic old
mansion, it even has ghost or sew
eral, according to the old time colored
folk, who claim to have seen the
"haunts' under the big front portico.
But if there is spoOk, it must be a
beneficient old soul, for from this
house of dreams the way to happiness
has led for at least II other couples.
A White House wedding is an event
to stir ones blood in Washington.
When Miss Alice Roosevelt became
the bride of Representative Nicholas
Longworth in 1906 pages and pages
were written concerning the event for
days and even weeks before 1t seem
ed to be almost the only topic of news
of interest to the people. And why
should it not be, the White House be
ing the house of the people, and its
occupants put there by the people?
An Historic List.
The wedding OF Miss Wilson and
Mr.. Sayre, will be the last up to date
of a long list of historic weddings
which have since 1911 taken place in
the White House. The first was that
Of Lucy Payne Washington, sister Of
Mrs. James Madison. the wife of the
then President Madison, who was
married to d. Judge Todd, of Ken
lucky. The others who have pledged
their trOth in the famous old mansion
are:
In 1872, Anna Todd cousin of Mrs.
Madison, who married Representative
John G. Jackson, Of Virginia
In 1926, John Adams son of Presi-
dent Adams, married his cousin, Helen
Jackson.
From 1929 to 1887, during the Jack
son administration, there were three
weddings. Della Lewis, a friend of
President Jackson's, was married TO
Alphonse Joseph Yver Pageot, an at
tache OF the French Legation. Mary
Easton, niece of President Jackson,
was married to Lucien b. Polk, and
Emily Martin, a connection of the
Jackson family, was married to Lewis
Randolph
In 1878, Emily Pratt, niece of Presi-
dent Hayes, and Gen. Russell Hastings
were married
In 1886, President Cleveland and
Frances Folsom were married
The daughters of Presidents who
have married from the White House
were Maria Monroe. who married her
cousin, Samuel Gouveneur; Elizabeth
Tyler, who married William Waller;
Nellie Grant who married Algernon
Sartoris, and Alice Roosevelt, who
married Nicholas LOngsworth. Miss
Wilson will be the fifth daughter of a
president to be married in the White
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