{"id":311,"date":"2012-04-23T03:30:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T07:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/?p=311"},"modified":"2012-04-23T03:31:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T07:31:08","slug":"marriage-thos-g-covington-gertrude-rivenbark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/marriage-thos-g-covington-gertrude-rivenbark\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage: Thos. G. COVINGTON &#038; Gertrude RIVENBARK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BEAUTIFUL WEDDING &#8211; Miss Gertrude Rivenbark Became Bride of Prominent Young Business Man<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Getrude RIVENBARK<\/strong>, daughter of <strong>Mr. and Mrs. R.T. RIVENBARK<\/strong>, of Williard, NC and <strong>Mr. Thos. G. COVINGTON<\/strong>, a leading young business man of Clio, SC, were happily united in marriage at the home of the bride&#8217;s parents, at Wiliard, yesterday at high noon, Rev. <strong>Dr. Calvin S. BLACKWELL<\/strong>, of this city, officiating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miss Zennie CROOM<\/strong>, of Burgaw, was maid of honor, and <strong>Mr. Baxter A. FLETCHER<\/strong>, of Clio, was best man. \u00a0<strong>Miss Exie CROOM<\/strong>, of Burgaw, charmingly rendered the wedding marches. \u00a0The following group of young ladies were bridesmaids: <strong>Miss Clara Lane WILLS<\/strong>, of McColl; <strong>Miss Katie VEACH<\/strong> of Warsaw; <strong>Miss Linda DOZIER<\/strong>, of Wilmington; <strong>Miss Mamie JOHNSON<\/strong>, of Williard;<strong> Miss Eveline POWERS<\/strong>, of Williard. \u00a0The ushers were: <strong>Mr. F.T. CROOM<\/strong>, of Burgaw; \u00a0Mr. <strong>Jas. M. JOHNSON<\/strong>, of Williard, <strong>Mr. Bernard A. EDENS,<\/strong> of Dillon, SC; <strong>Mr. John C. WIGGINS<\/strong>, of Wilmington; and <strong>Mr. R.J. RIVENBARK<\/strong>, of Darlington, SC.<\/p>\n<p>The delightful occasion brought together a large company, among whom were <strong>Mr. J.C. COVINGTON<\/strong>, of Clio, <strong>Mr. C.C. RIVENBARK<\/strong>, of Sanford; <strong>Mr. J.W. RIVENBARK<\/strong>, of Wilmington; <strong>Miss Katie SHOLAR<\/strong>, of Wilmington; <strong>Mrs. Eva Forrester RIVENBARK<\/strong>, of Burgaw, and other members of the family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>The bridesmaids and maids of honor were in white organdi. \u00a0The bride wore an elegant going-away gown of castor venetian cloth with velvet lining &#8212; Wilmingon Star Jan. 29th.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Marlboro Democrat, 6 Feb 1903. ChroniclingAmerica.gov<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEAUTIFUL WEDDING &#8211; Miss Gertrude Rivenbark Became Bride of Prominent Young Business Man Ms. Getrude RIVENBARK, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.T. RIVENBARK, of Williard, NC and Mr. Thos. G. COVINGTON, a leading young business man of Clio, SC, were happily united in marriage at the home of the bride&#8217;s parents, at Wiliard, yesterday at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/marriage-thos-g-covington-gertrude-rivenbark\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marriage: Thos. G. COVINGTON &#038; Gertrude RIVENBARK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12196],"tags":[12314,12313,12308,12316,12318,6949,12317,12168,12320,12216,12319,12315],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individualmarriages","tag-blackwell","tag-covington","tag-croom","tag-dozier","tag-edens","tag-johnson","tag-powers","tag-rivenbark","tag-sholar","tag-veach","tag-wiggins","tag-willis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}