Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-21
Old Families United
 By CrOss-Gracie Wedding.

By CrOSS-GricIe eddlng.
 The following interesting account of the wedding of Miss Maud Taylor Oracle and Thomas Flournoy Cross, which joins two of the oldest and most prominent families of this sec ton of the country, was printed in the Southern Guardian of Little Rock yes terday:
 The marriage of Maud Taylor Oracle, second daughter of John M. Oracle and Thomas Flournoy Cross was solemn;Zed by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Morris at the Oracle residence, Tues day evening at 9 o'clock. Mgr. Thos. V. Tobin and Rev. Father Wernke, assisting The bride was attended by Miss Sallie Oracle as maid of honor and Misses Elizabeth Oracle French and Virginia Walker, as bridesmaids, while Jack -fWocdson, acted as best man. Miss Mildred Sutton played the wedding march and just preceding the ceremony, Mrs. Ruby Partee Radcliffe sang Cadman's "At Dawning."
 The bride, sweet and beautiful girl, floated down the aisle on the arm of her father and met the groom and best man, Jackson Woodson at the beautifully implovised altar where his lordship performed the ceremony.
 After the solemn words were said congratulations were extended and a reception followed. tbat was partici- pated in by only the families and near friends of the contracting parties. Immediately following the reception the guests assembled in the
 if,nS were most artistic and elaborate. Here Mrs. William French and Mrs. Pierce Oracle dispensed lavish hospitality.
 Miss Oracle is the second daughter of John NJ. Oracle, and a descendant of one of the oldest families in Ark ansas. Educated at St. Mn1y's in Lit tie Rock, and graduate of the Wis itation convent of Georgetown at Washington, D. C., she has also traN- eled extensively, having twice visited the ancestral home of the Oracle fam fly in Ireland, while there having taced the genealogy of the family to the time of Cromwell when all records of Catholic families in Ireland were . destroyed; few have been as fortunate as to visit the home of ones ancestors for generations, as has Miss Gfacle at Rathkyle, Kilkenney county, Ire land, where in the chapel is me- morial window erected to Pierce 5. Oracle. among the first of that name which has been handed down ill Ora cie family in years. In the cathedral at Little Rock is window to Pierce Gracie. grandfather of the bride.
 Miss Oracle is a great granddaugh- y,rI9n settled Jefferson county, Arkansas in ISIS having tramped from his kentucky home, even before the days of steam
 boats; he, with the late Senator Ches- ter Ashley, engaged in plantation en- terprises and laid the foundation ol the Oracle cotton properties which John M. Gracie has developed into the largest individually operated cotton plantations in the world. Among the distinguished ancestors of the bride is Don Joseph de Ia Valliers, who gov erned the province Of Arkansas while it was part of Louisiana and who acted in that capacity under the suc- cessive regimes of Spain and France, Creed Taylor having married grand daughter of that gentleman.
 Mr. Cross is the son of MT. and Mrs. J. c. Cross and a grandson of the late Col. and Mrs Lucy K. Flournoy or Tennessee and with his father and brother IS engaged in the operation of a cotton plantation at Pendleton. Ark, where they will reside.
 The gifts received by the young couple included chest of silver and motor from the brides father ana 2 silver Service from her family The gift of the groom to the bride was a diamond and platinum lavaliere After a reception to those present at the ceremony the young couple de- narted at midnight for New Orleans thence to Panama, Costa Rica and Cuba for q months cruise.