Calhoun County AlArchives News.....Oxford (Alabama) Couple Marry in Texas (Sam A. Mellon Sr. & Roberta Aurelia Roberts) June 20, 1920
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Unknown June 20, 1920
Roberta Aurelia Roberts and Sam Alexander Mellon Sr. were married at the home 
of Mary Hornbuckle Thompson and husband, P. K. Thompson in Fort Worth, Texas.

Source: Newspaper Article
Date: June 1920

Oxford (Alabama) Couple Marry in Texas

The following from a Fort Worth, Texas, paper will be of interest to them any 
friends of Miss Roberta Roberts and Sam Mellon here.  Both spent their 
childhood days in Oxford.  Mrs. Mellon as Miss Roberts, went to Texas last 
summer for a visit and it was then the romance started.

"The home of Mr. and Mrs. P. K. Thompson in Fort Worth, was the scene of a 
beautiful wedding on Thursday afternoon, April 22, at 5:30 when their niece, 
Miss Roberta Roberts of Oxford, Ala., was married to Mr. Sam Mellon, also of 
Alabama.  Before the ceremony Miss Sewanee Van Cleve sang. "I Love You Truly." 
To the strains of Mendelssohn wedding march, play ed by Miss Frances Terrell, 
a cousin of the bride, the dainty little flower girls, Jean Thompson and Dora 
Lee Byers, attired in airy white dresses with pink ribbons, entered though the 
parlor carrying Easter Lillie, to open the French doors and disclose a 
charming table.  Between tall floor vases holding pink snap dragons and 
fluffly ferns, stood the bride and groom with their attendants, Miss Jabie 
Thompson and Mr. James Thigpen. "

"During the impressive ring ceremony performed by the Rev. Dr. J. Frank 
Norris, Miss Terrell softly played a theme from Mendelssohn.  The bride was 
lovely in a tailored suit of navy blue tricotin with accessories to match.  
She wore a shower corsage of bride's roses and white sweet peas. Mi ss 
Thompson wore white lace with corsage of Killarney rosebuds.  Miss Terrell and 
Miss Van Cleve were in pink taffeta and wearing bouquets of Ophelia rose buds 
and sweet peas.

"The entire lower floor was artistically decorated in snap dragons, swe et 
peas and ferns. Immediately after the ceremony an informal reception w as held 
when Mrs. Thompson was assisted in entertaining by her sister, Mrs. Jean 
Hornbuckle, Misses Jabie and Julia Thompson and others.  Mr. and Mrs. Mellon 
leaving shortly afterward for a stay in North Texas.  Among the out-of-town 
guest were: Mrs. Ruth Wilkerson of Venus, Texas, Miss Jean Hornbuckle, and Mr. 
Leon Hornbuckle of Venus, Texas; Miss Bertha Foste r, a cousin of the groom of 
Farmersville, Texas; Miss Frances Terrell of Ladania, Texas; Rev. Ross A. 
Smith of Waco, Texas; Miss Margaret Jemison (T alladega, Alabama) , Miss 
Frances Terrell of Ladonia, Eugene Wilson, formerly of Oxford, Ala., now of 
Fort Worth."

Additional Comments:
Married April 22, 1920 Fort Worth, Texas

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