The Washington times., 1929-06-26
Prominent Families Of Virginia Are
United In Marriage This Afternoon
Representative Tucker
Weds Miss Williams at
ancestral Estate Near
Culpeper

OulpCPSA
Representative Henry st.
George Tucker, Of Virginia,
Joins the ranks Of June
bridegrooms today when his
marriage to Miss Mary Jane
Williams, of Culpeper, Va,
takes place.
The scene of the wedding
Is one of the most pictur-
esque and historic places in
the Old Dominion. For
rRedwood," the ancestral
estate of the brides family,
is one Of the few truly Colo
NAL homes remaining in the
: hands of the family owning
/ it since pre-Revolutionary
days.
4 Long Ago
The estate was purchased
from Governor Spottswood, Gov
ernor of Virginia in the Colonial
period, by Nathaniel Pendleton,
i The many-times-removed grand
father Of the bride.
81 The ceremony will be per-
formed at A o'clock under
stately, centuries-old trees, with
= cousin Of the bridegroom, the
Venerable Bishop Tucker, of Vir-
Rinia, officiating, assisted by
the pastor of hte Presbyterian
Church in Lexington, Va, the
home Of the bridegroom.
The bride will be given In
marriage by her brother, PEN
dleton Long Williams, Of Par
kersburg, w. Va. The bride
groom win have ono Of his sons
as best man.
Following the ceremony .
reception viii be held On tais
q grounds.
B Wedding Guests
Several motor cars left Wash
1ngton this morning for "Red-
n wood" filled with guests. who are
/ attending the wedding. On one
motor bus there were about q
dozen ladies' from the Louise
: Home, over which the bride has
presided for the past IA years.
For the bridegroom this Is his
third marriage, having been a
!, widower twice. His first wife,
Miss Henrietta Preston Johnston,
of Lexington. Va. died In 1909.
4 Some years later, Representative
Tucker married Miss Martha
Sharpe, Of Wilkesbarre, Pa, who
died about two years ago. He has
three sons and three daughters
+ by the first marriage. And there
are eight grandchildren.
III Representative and Mrs. Tucker
will spend much of the summer
b at the formers home in Lexing.
ton, Va. And with the reopenlng
of the special session Of Congress
I. in September, they will come to
make their home in Washington.
The Egyptian Minister, Mr..
z Samy Pasha, was among the
s guests of Mrs. Fred Britten, who
entertained at dinner last night
X at the PLACE Deauville at the
Wardman Park Hotel.
x x X
Honor Guests
Mai. Gen. and Mrs. Stephen o.
Fuqua were the guests Of honor
Mt a dinner given last evening by
Col. and Mrs. Andrew Chaffin in
their home at the Army War Col
Aage. The other guests were: The
Persian Minister, Mira Davoud
y Khan Meftah, Gen. and Mrs. AL.
! bert c. Dalton, Maj. Gen. and Mrs.
Thomas Q. Ashburn, Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. George Simonds, Col.
and Mrs. William p. Screws, Col.
and Mrs. John L. Dewitt. Col.
Campbell Hodges, Col. and Mrs.
Robert Collins, Major and Mrs.
E. H. Hicks, Major and Mrs. Mar
tin c. Sha1lenberger. Major and
Mrs. Franklin Sibert and Mrs.
William H. Peak.
X " \
Mrs. William e. Borah, wife OF
genator Borah, will leave the end
of the week for New York, where
she will Join Mr.. and Mrs. G.. c.
Anderson, Of Boise, Idaho. with
whom she will pass two weeks
motoring In New England. Mr..
and Mrs. Anderson recently were
In Washington, visiting Senator
and Mrs. Borah, accompanied by
Miss Virginia Miller and Miss Hen
rietta Young, also Of Boise.
Hiram Bingham, jr., son OF
Senator and Mrs. Hiram Bing-
ham, has taken an apartment at
the Wardman Park Hotel for the
summer. Mr.. Bingham is study
ing at the State Department for
the consular service.
Rear Admiral Joseph Hemph1l
and his daughter, Miss Ora Hemp
hill, have gone to North Hadleys
Canada, for the summer.
X \ \
Mrs. Ulysses s. Grant III and
her daughter, Miss Clara Frances
Grant, have gone to West Point
to attend the midsummer festivi-
3 ties, and are staying at the
Thayer Hotel on the Military
Academy reservation.
X =
Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey,
who sails for Europe Saturday
was given a ''bon voyage" lunch.
con by the Daughters of the
American Colonists today in the
crystal room of the Willard.
Covers were laid for 70.
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Representative and Mrs. Edgar