Butts-Fulton County GaArchives Marriages.....Tatum, Susie - Borders, Robert H. February 1898
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Jackson Argus – Butts County, Week of February 11, 1898
Borders – Tatum

Jackson social circles were greatly enlivened Tuesday by the report in Atlanta 
Constitution of the marriage of Mr. Robert H. Borders to Miss Susie Tatum.

Mr. Borders is a very popular young business man of this place and his 
intention to marry was known to very few, if any, of our people.  The report 
was, therefore, quite a pleasing surprise.

The following account of he marriage appeared in the Constitution on Tuesday 
morning last.

She was young and beautiful.  He was tall and handsome.  They loved each other 
and they laughed at parental objection.  Now they are married, pretty Miss 
Susie Tatum, of 137 Alexander Street, and Mr. Robert H. Borders, of Jackson, Ga.

Yesterday she asked her mother for the last time if she could marry the man she 
loved, and her mother told her that she could not.  Miss Tatum is a young girl 
of high spirits and loving Mr. Borders as she did, left her home and met her 
lover at the Marion hotel.  Together they drove to Dr. Landrum’s and were 
quietly married at that minister’s home on Spring Street.

Last night the happy couple telephoned their best wishes to Miss Tatum’s 
parents and left for a tour through Florida.

Mrs. Borders is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Tatum of 187 Alexander 
Street.  She is a beautiful young lady who has always had many admirers, but of 
them all she has given her heart to Bob Borders, a young gentleman from 
Jackson, Ga.  They have been engaged to be married for some time, but Mr. and 
Mrs. Tatum objected to the union.

Mr. Borders is at the head of the grocery firm in Jackson, Ga., known as the R. 
H. Borders Grocery Company.   He is a well to do business man and besides his 
attractive personality he has the good qualities that make up a man.

For some time Miss Tatum has been in the office of Major R. J. Guinn, county 
school superintendent, as his assistant.   She went to her work yesterday 
morning as usual.  She did not tell her mother that Borders was in town but 
before leaving asked if they could marry.  Receiving a negative answer, she 
determined to marry him anyway.  She telephoned him of her parent’s decision, 
and they agreed to meet at the Marion in the afternoon and marry.  At 5 o’clock 
they met at the hotel, and Mr. D. H. Scoville, manager of the hotel, and Dr. 
Montgomery went with them to the residence of Dr. Landrum, where the ceremony 
was performed.

After the marriage Mrs. Borders telephoned to her mother that she had married.  
Mrs. Tatum was almost prostrated at the news and became so ill as to go to 
bed.  She telephoned her blessings to the newly wedded couple.

The bride wrote her mother a letter from the Marion telling her how happy she 
was and how sorry she felt because her mother couldn’t be at the wedding.  The 
couple left on the 10:55 o’clock train for Florida.



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