Wilcox County AlArchives Marriages.....Lois Dale - Joseph B. McWilliams November 30 1904
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Wilcox Progressive Era, Thursday, December 8, 1904

McWilliams -- Dale.
  If any one thing more than another betokens the serenity of our 
times, it is the frequent and joyous ringing of the marriage bells. Our 
young people are wisely beginning the work of life by sharing its joys 
and dividing its sorrows - and laying the great foundations of home 
building. This time we record the marriage of Mr. Jos. B. McWilliams to 
Miss Lois Dale, both of Oak Hill at 3:30 o'clock on the evening of the 
30th of November, 1904. The marriage was solemnized in the A. R. P. 
Church in presence of a house full of friends of the happy young 
people. Dr. H. M. Henry, the Pastor of the bride and groom officiated 
and Mrs. Sara Miller Bonner played the wedding march. The church was 
beautifully decorated for the occasion and this was the first marriage 
in the new and elegant church edifice. Ferns and flowers and palms and 
hanging vines and soft light and sweet music blended with the solemn 
words of the Minister and the vows of love for life as they fell from 
the lips of the bride and groom.
  The bride is the eldest daughter of Mr. Calvin S. Dale. She looked 
beautiful on this happy occasion in exquisite and becoming gown of 
brown with hat to match and a large bouquet of white flowers rare in 
their fragrance and beauty.
  Miss Dale is a young lady of rare beauties of character and by 
education is fitted for high usefulness in life.
  "Who wins her heart, and he alone,
  Knows she has a sweetness all her own."
  Mr. Jos. B. McWilliams, the worthy groom bears the name of his well-
known and worthy father and is a young man of many sterling traits of 
character and by marked integrity, energy and business judgment, is 
making his way upward in life. After the ceremony the bride and groom 
were met by a number of friends and relatives at the home of the groom 
where the hours passed in feasting and social joys. It would take too 
much space to record the many exquisite and useful gifts received by 
the bride and groom.
  The tables could not hold them all-these gifts were but expressions 
of good will and wishes for both bride and groom; and The Era begs 
leave to drop its congratulations and hearty good wishes into the 
chorus that cheered Mr. and Mrs. McWilliams on the great day of their 
united lives. May the clouds always hang high and the light be clear 
about them.

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