Butts-Spalding County GaArchives Marriages.....Carmichael, Pearle - Leach, Joseph M. June 17, 1896 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 March 10, 2005, 7:19 pm Jackson Argus – Week of June 4, 1896 Leach – Carmichael Mr. and Mrs. David N. Carmichael request your presence at the marriage of their daughter, Pearle, to Mr. Joseph M. Leach, Wednesday, June 17th, at high noon at “Oak Grove”, Jackson, Georgia, 1896 Mr. Leach is one of Griffin’s most prominent young business men and has the confidence of all who know him, for he has won for himself the high character that he possesses in business circles by his strict integrity. His lovely bride is from one of the most prominent families in Butts county and is in every way fitted to make his life happy. The Argus extends congratulations in advance to the young couple. Jackson Argus – Week of June 4, 1896 …………………………………………………………………………………………… LEACH – CARMICHAEL The Beautiful Wedding Was Solemnized at High Noon Yesterday The wedding of Miss Pearl Carmichael and Mr. Joe M. Leach was solemnized yesterday noon at the home of the bride near Jackson, the Rev. Jno. Speer of Stone Mountain officiating. The home of Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Carmichael never looked more beautiful, nestled as it is, in a beautiful grove of oaks, from which it takes it name, Oak Grove, the same being famous as one of the loveliest country homes in Butts county and owned by one of the most prominent and wealthiest planters of this section of the state. The decorations were very beautiful and tasteful and everything seemed to conspire together in making the hour one great joy and gayety. The bride was lovely attired in a pretty tailor made traveling suit of gray and blue cloth, and she never looked prettier, and with the handsome and distinguished looking bridegroom by her side covenanting an everlasting love and protection to his bride, made the union a living picture of poesy, and dreams of perpetual happiness and joy. Precisely at high noon the groom with his bride on his arm appeared in the beautiful drawing room where awaited the minister and a large concourse of relative and friends of the contracting parties. Very soon after the wedding ceremony the spacious dining hall of the Carmichael home was thrown open to the invited guests, and tables laden with all sorts of lovely things eatable, weir made the victim of a wedding party. Mrs. D. N. Carmichael assisted by Mrs. H. E. and J. B. Settle, Mrs. Rose Carmichael and Mrs. P. H. Watkins proved to be hostesses of the most elegant kind. The bride is a very lovely lady of less than twenty years, and numbers her friends by the score. The groom Mr. Joe M. Leach, is a worthy and honorable citizen of Griffin and a member of the leading grocery firm of that city. The bride and groom left in the afternoon for Griffin where they will make their future home. The guest present were: :Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Daughtry, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Carmichael, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Curry, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. B. Settles, Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Watkins and family, Mr. and Mrs. Joe S. Ham, Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Etheridge, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Huff of Griffin, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Carmichael; Mesdames N. E. Settles, Rose Carmichael, S. G. Etheridge, W. F. Lee, Mary Heflin, Mr. Walker Moore, with Miss Annie Carmichael, Misses Agness Carmichael, Myrtis Peavy, Eva Sassnett, Mary Goodall, Rosa Thornton, Annie Wright, Emma Ezell, Edna Madden, of Concord, Mary Harkness, Mary Brooks of Griffin, Judie Brooks, Sallie Saunders, Susie Manley, Geneva Carmichael, Messrs. C. C. Smith, Joe Wright, E. P. Bridges of Griffin, Claud Hutchinson of Atlanta, Mr. R. T. Watkins, B. F. Watkins, Joe Carmichael of Molena, Cliff Ford of Griffin, Walter Carmichael, Van Fletcher, W. G. Goodrich, Lem and Harrris Carmichael, of McDonough and Dr. R. G. Bryans. Jackson Argus – Week of June 18, 1896 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/vitals/marriages/gmr298carmicha.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.3 Kb