The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-10
Miss Lolita Cox
Wed In Virginia
To LEIGH Smith

ton occurred Sunday evening, Aug
ust 6, at Clermont Plantation,
Buckingham county, Virginia,
when Miss Lolita Griffith Cox was
united in marriage to Leige Emer-
son Smith of Miilmort Plantation,
Cumberland county Virginia.
The marriage, was solemnized at
$3.50 o'clock on the north lawn at
Clermont, in a grove of tall white
oaks, the bace of one of which
served as an altar.
The bride with her mother, Mrs.
Grace Savage Cox Grissom, who
gave her in marriage, came down
the front porch steps and met the
bridegroom at the altar. There
were no attendants.
The Rev. E. J. Nottingham, pas
tor of Hatcher church, which is To-
Gated on one corner of the planta-
ton, officiated.
The bride wore wedding gown
of net over a foundation of white
stain. The basque, fitted over a
lace bodice, was designed with a
V-neckline, narrow rolled collar,
and row of tiny lace covered
buttons down the front. Lace mitts,
extended from the short puffed
sleeves to points over the hands.
The full skirt ended in short
train Her veil was of fingertip
length illusion and fell from a
coronet of orange blossoms. She
carried a white prayer-book mark
ed with an orchid and showered
with badly breath and net puffs.
Her only ornament was a pearl
and amethyst brooch which had
belonged to her great grandmother
Cox. She carried an exquisite lace
handkerchief.
Her mother, Mrs. Grissom, wore
dress of grey blue sheer with
cosage of pink rosebuds.
Immediately after the ceremony
a wedding supper was served. The
lower floor Of the home was
decorated with arrangements of
garden flowers. the dining room
where the guest sat at small tables
motif of green and white was
used. The brides table had the
TERED wedding cake for center
piece and was lighted by tall white
tapers in silver candelabra.
For the short motor trip to the
groom's home, Millmont, where
the honeymoon will be spent, the
bride wore a two-piece dress o.
brown and white printed linen anc
white accessories.
The bride is the daughter of thu
late Thomas Elmo Cox, and Grace
Savage Cox Grissom of Clermon
Plantation. Buckingham county
: Virginia She is lineal descendan
of Ensign Thomas Savage, frs
, settler of Acconack County, East
ern shore of Virginia, and of Long
, field and Lovecy Cox, who cam
; to our province of North Carolina
in 1892, with a land grant from
King William III of England. Sh'
was educated in the public school
of Wilmington and later received
a B. S. degree at Woman's college
u. N. c. For graduate study sh
! attended Teachers college, Colum
bia University, and there receive'
an M. A. Degree.
= She has taught in the publ
/ schools of Burlington and Salisbury
: and at the N. C. School for tn
l Deaf at Morganton. For the pas
several years she has been directo
2 of physical education for girls q
$ Boyden High school in Salisbury
The bridegroom, son of the lat
Leigh Henson Smith and Fanni
Clark Smith, of Cumberland count
Virginia, is descendant of Ralp
Waldo Emerson, and of the Broae
5 bursts of Sussex England. Hi
n sister is the poetress whose pc
a name is Pattie Broadhurst
). He was educated in the schoo
s of Cumberland county and later a
S tended the University of Virginis
# Among the guests at the weddin
were Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Mile
= of Washington, D. c., Mrs. Alfre
Losch of New York, Mrs. J. T
! Griffith of Baltimore, Mr.. an
. Mrs. D. C. Patrick and T. E. &c
and daughter, Carol Of Wilmington
and Sgt Charles w. Cox of Cam
Patrick Henry, Virginia.