The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-07-17

A wedding or which Pensacola So
ciety will read with special interest,
is that of Miss Mary Stuart Robert
son of Staunton, Va, to Lieutenant
William Kelly Beard, U. S. N, son of
Hon. and Mrs. John S. Beard. which is
taken from the Staunton Daily News
of July 10th:
The marriage of Miss Mary Stuart
Robertson and Lieutenant william
Kelly Beard. of the United States
navy, which was solemuized last night
at Emmanuel church by Rev. R. c.
Jett, Of Lynchburg, assisted by Rev.
w. G. Mcdowell, the pastor, was an
event of great brilliance and on ae-
count of the social prominence and
delightful personality of the contract
ing parties, is OF paramount import
ance to a wide circle of friends.
The bride is the youngest daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander F. Robert
son. of this city. and granddaughter
of the late Hon. A. H. H. Stuart, sec
rotary of the interior under the Fill
more administration, and one of the
foremost men of his day. Lieutenant
Beard is the son of Mr.. and Mrs John
Beard, OF Pensacola, Fla. who at one
time owned Selma" near this city,
and spent several years there
The bride was gowned in a very
simple but exquisite dress of white
satin, made en- traine, and trimmed
with pearl passamenterie and inserts
of point lace. The tulle veil was worn
with a coronet of orange blossoms
which accentuated her piquant beauty.
Her ornaments We're pearls the gift
Of her mother, who wore them at her
own wedding. She carried shower
bouquet of white snap dragons AMI
rosebuds.
Lieutenant Beard was In the uni
form Of the United States navy. The
bride entered the church with her
father and was met at the chancel
steps by the groom and his best man,
Lieutenant Alex F. Robertson of the
United States Medical Reserve Corps,
brother of the bride. After the be-
tered the chancel and stood before the
fower-decked altar where the mar
riage service was said.
The dame of honor was Mrs Pey-
ton Cochran, sister of the bride. and
the maid OF honor Miss Sarah Robert
son, also a sister. They wore white
crepe gowns and carried pink sweet
peas and roses.
The bridesmaids We're Miss Annie
Jett, of Lynchburg, Miss Frances
Myers of Norfolk. Miss Henrietta
Tucker. OF Lexington, and Misses Ell
sic Morris, Ruth Sublett and King
Nelson. of this cityfi They wore love
ly. fiimsy white gowns of wolfe and
carried rustic hats with green stream
ers filled with ferns and daisies.
The ushers were Major Peyton
Cochran. A. Stuart Robertson, Charles
z Hoge. Jr., and Benjamin Black
ford, of Staunton; F1oridus Crosby and
Hunter Mcguire, of Richmond. and
Rev. Churchill J. Gibson of Lexington.
Master George Cochran. in a white
sailor suit, and little Margaret Stuart
Robertson in a dainty French crea-
ton. nephew and niece of the bride,
carried white baskets filed with rose
petals and strewed them in the path
of the bride as she came down the
aisle of the church.
Immediately following the cere-
mony a reception was given at the
ancestral home of the bride. She re-
ceived in. the same place that her
mother stood at her own wedding re-
ception. and in the house to which
her great-great-grandmo came as
a bride
Both the church and the house
were beautifully and artistica1ly deco