Monday, April 23, 2018

A Bit More Information about the Slater-Tomlinson Wedding - December 25, 1885

We've already seen this maternal great grandparents' marriage license but thanks to a small item in a local newspaper we now know where their wedding took place:

[25 Dec 1885, Page 1 - The Eureka Herald and Greenwood
County Republican at Newspapers.com]

I wasn't able to locate a picture of the hotel but here's an ad for it a few years later:

[9 Jun 1888, Page 4 - The Severyite at Newspapers.com]

A reminder:--here's a portrait of the happy couple that was probably taken at about the time of their marriage:

[Courtesy of Olive Slater-Kennedy]



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