Wilcox County AlArchives Marriages.....Anita Augusta Gaillard - William Whitfield Croom 1904
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Wilcox Progressive Era, Thursday, April 21, 1904

Engagement Announced.
  Mrs. Richebourg Gaillard announces the engagement and forthcoming marriage of 
her daughter, Anita Augusta Gaillard, to Mr. William Whitfield Croom. This 
announcement simple as it is, is full of untold interest not only in Mobile, 
but throughout the State, as the friends of these two popular young people are 
legion. Miss Galliard was born and reared in Camden, attending the local 
schools, but her education was completed at the Alabama Normal College under 
the remarkably fine preceptress, Miss Julia Tutweiler. She is the daughter of 
Colonel Richebogrg Gaillard, and is of Huguenot descent, being related to many 
of the old and aristocratic families of South Carolina. Her grandfather, Thomas 
Gaillard, was a great scholar and literary man. Her father a graduate of Yale 
College, was one of the finest lawyers in Wilcox County and a gallant captain 
in the Confederate army. Her literary talents are inherited and she has filled 
the position of society editress on various papers, having served in that 
capacity most acceptably for The Register, and is now filling the same position 
for the Evening Herald. Since the death of her father and for the past five 
years she has been a resident of the Gulf City and has been one of its most 
popular girls, having served as maid of honor to the Queen of the Carnival the 
season of 1903, and attended the Confederate reunion in New Orleans last spring 
as sponsor for the George E. Dixon Camp. Numerous social affairs are already 
being planned in her honor. Of a most lovable disposition, bright and happy, 
with her heart and energy ever devoted to the interest of her friends, is it 
any wonder, to know her is to love her? And the little verse,
     "Be good sweet maid, and let who will be
         elever.
     Do noble deeds, not dream them all day
         long.
     ?o making life, death and the vast forever
         One grand sweet song."
has been fully realized by all into whose lives she has come for she has made 
life for them truly "one grand sweet song."
  Mr. William Croom, the son of the late Major Stephens Croom and Mrs. Mary
Marshall Croom, is one of the finest young men this proud old city can boast
of. Steady, reliable, honorable, with a remarkably bright mind, both in 
business sense and in literary pursuits, he has ever been a most desirable
guest at all social affairs, and in all crowds, both with the young and old,
he has been the necessary adjunct to give success and brightness to any social
gathering.
  The wedding will take place early in June, and society will turn out en
masse to witness the nuptials of this couple, two of its most loved members.
- Mobile Register.

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