Houston County GaArchives Marriages.....Means, Martha Virginia - Bryan, Benjamin David February 25, 1903
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The Home Journal (Perry, GA), Thursday, 5 March 1903, page 9, column 3
Marriage at Elko.
     At the Elko Methodist church on Wednesday, February 23d, at 3 p.m., a 
most beautiful wedding was solemnized.  The contracting parties were Miss 
Martha Virginia Means and Mr. Benjamin David Bryan.  The church was 
artistically decorated and was filled to its capacity by relatives and friends 
to witness the ceremony, which Rev. H. C. Brewton, the pastor, performed.
     The ushers were Lawton W. Houser and Fred Eubanks, marched in on the side 
aisles, meeting under the arch, then separated, marching back to their proper 
place, when the attendants came in on the side aisles, forming couples under 
the arch, then separating, forming a semi-circle on either side of the arch.  
They marched in the following order:  W. O. Gaines and Miss Elma Houser, W. H. 
Bryan and Miss Pauline Smoak, W. E. Swearingin and Miss Gertrude Marshall, 
Donald McDonald and Miss Edna Collier, R. B. Means and Miss Mary Lou Megrath, 
W. H. Lasseter and Miss Lillie Mae Mims, J. W. Lytle and Miss Emmie Florine 
Means.  The best man was J. D. Means and the maid of honor Miss Mary Bryan, 
brother and sister of the bride and groom.  Miss Louise Herndon played 
Mendelsshon wedding march, and while the ceremony was being performed very 
softly played "Hearts and Flowers."  The Lohengrin march was given at the 
conclusion.
     The bride was attired in castor silk with panne velvet and peau de soie 
trimmings.  She caried [sic] a boquet of hyacinths fuchsias.
     After the ceremony refreshments were served at the home in Elko of Mr. 
Walter E. Means, brother of the bride.  The attendants were seated at table in 
a circle, with the bride and groom, best man and maid of honor seated at a 
table in the center, which of course made it also the center of attention.
     M. Bryan and wife left at 6 o'clock for Vienna, the home of the groom, 
Misses Emmie Means, Edna Collier, J. D. and R. B. Means accompanying them.
     The bride is the youngest daughter of the late Dr. M. H. Means.  She was 
greatly admired and loved.  The groom is a man of real worth in his community, 
and has a lucrative and responsible mercantile interest in Vienna.

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