Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-15
Sister of Boise Matron
Wcds in San Francisco.

san Francisco and interior California
papers record the wedding of Miss Julia
Frances Edwards, daughter of Mrs. Il.
j. G. Edwards of that city and sister of
Mrs. James G. Green of Boise to MIR,
Melvin G. Mcekcr wealthy Californian.
on Tuesday, September &c. Under the
caption, san Francisco Cir, Bride of
Scion of Well Known Sonoma Family"
the San Francisco Chronicle of October
says in its society columns: Miss
Julia Frances Edwards, second daueh-
ter of Mrs. Emma j. {. Edwards of
1925 Larkin street, and Melvin 6.
Meeker of Sonoma county, were mar
ried at Grace Episcopal cathedral on
Tuesday, September &C. The Very Rev,
Dean Gresham officiating. Only rela-
tives were present. The couple, after
a wedding supper, left for Coronado.
They will reside in San Francisco and
Sonoma county. The bride is daugh-
ter of the late Hon. John c. Edwards,
a pioneer of California, who. before
crossing the plains from Missouri,
served that state as congressman, SUI
preme justice and governor. The bride
groom is a son of the late Colonel Nj. G.
Meeker of Sonoma county. one of the
state" Another exchange gives a par
| tial list of those in attendance and
adds the following: ut was a very
quiet wedding, only relations present
and extreme simplicity marking every
detail, owing to the recent passing OF
Colonel NJ. c. Meeker, the father of the
bridegroom which followed the loss OF
Il younger son but a few months be-
|
the mother the bridegroom, Mrs
+. j. Edwards of San Francisco, and
Mrs. NJ. c. Meeker of Sonoma county
both pioneer mothers Of the state, were
distinguished figures at the wedding
The bride was given away by her
brother, Paul Edwards, the well known
san Francisco journalist. The ma
iron of honor was Mrs Arthur l.. Ed
wards of San Francisco. sister-in-la law
of the bride, and the best man was the
brides brother, Arthur l.. Edwards
The relatives from out of town were
Mr.. John W. Edwards and Mrs Ed
wards and Mr.. Robert Lee Edwards
and Mrs. Edwards, brothers and sis
! ters-i n-law of the bride. Mr., Waldo
Kenneth Edwards and Hon. Lawrence
| Edwards, assemblyman from San Joa-
duin county, nephews of the bride, and
Mrs. Lawrence Edwards, all of Stock
ton. After wedding supper. Mr. and
Mrs. Meeker went to southern Califor-
MIA to spend their honeymoon. Or
their return hey will be at home al
the Meeker place III Sonoma county
until winter comes. kilograms of con
! graduation were received from rela
tiVes of the happy couple from New
York. st. Louis. Kansas city and JEFF
ferson city, Mo, the latter place the
former home of the brides father. The
bridegroom's family came from New
York state. The bride is an accom-
} plished musician, and Is a member o
a leading literary woman's club of tn,
state Both bride and bridegroom were
born in California and have known
! each other for several years. Like al
children of the golden state, they ar,
} of the pleasure loving class, and 1t Ii
} safe to predict that the recent quie
! life of the big Meeker home in So
mona county will be frightened by
few gay house parties before the oper;
season, which the bride never fails t,
keep in touch with. opens in San Fran
cisco where Mr.. and Mrs. Meeker will
, spend the winters. At present, whil'
the hunting is still royal sport, the,
will linger in Sonoma, for both ar,
fond of shooting and every season TO