{"id":369,"date":"2009-06-12T22:25:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T05:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/martin\/?p=369"},"modified":"2009-06-12T22:25:42","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T05:25:42","slug":"marriage-of-willie-blanche-king-eb-norman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/marriage-of-willie-blanche-king-eb-norman\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage: KING, Willie Blanche and NORMAN, E.B. (1899)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>From the 17 Feb 1899 issue of the Roanoke Beacon, newspaper of Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">A pretty home marriage was solemnized on Wednesday afternoon at 3 o&#8217;clock, at the home of the bride, in Hamilton, while contracting parties being <strong>Miss Willie Blanche KING<\/strong>, of that town, and <strong>Mr. E.B. NORMAN<\/strong>, of Plymouth. The Maid of Honor, <strong>Miss May KING<\/strong>, sister of the bride, and the groom&#8217;s best man, <strong>Mr. M.W. NORMAN<\/strong>, brother of the groom, entered the parlor followed by the bride and groom. \u00a0In the parlor they were met by <strong>Rev. R.H. GILBERT<\/strong>, of Plymouth Baptist Church, who performed the ceremony which united the two hears as one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Immediately after the ceremony the bridal party drove to the nearest station where they took the train for Plymouth, where at night they were tendered a reception by the grooms&#8217;s parents,<strong> Mr. and Mrs. C.J. NORMAN<\/strong>, at their magnificent home corner Main and Adams streets. \u00a0At 9 o&#8217;clock the guests who had called to offer congratulations to this popular young couple and to bid Mr. and Mrs. NORMAN a cordial welcome to our town, were invited into the dining ball where a real marriage feast was prepared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Though unavoidable circumstances had postponed the event for a day, yet all went well, ad the large number present voted it one of the most brilliant events in the history of this town. \u00a0The bridal presents were both numerous and costly.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the 17 Feb 1899 issue of the Roanoke Beacon, newspaper of Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina. A pretty home marriage was solemnized on Wednesday afternoon at 3 o&#8217;clock, at the home of the bride, in Hamilton, while contracting parties being Miss Willie Blanche KING, of that town, and Mr. E.B. NORMAN, of Plymouth. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/marriage-of-willie-blanche-king-eb-norman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marriage: KING, Willie Blanche and NORMAN, E.B. (1899)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22486],"tags":[12193,22581],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-marriage","tag-king","tag-norman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}