Marriage of Bunyan & Jennings- Comanche County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Emily Jordan 03 Jun 2014 Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== Tulsa Daily World. (Tulsa, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 25, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 13, 1906 The Shawnee Herald contained the following special from Guthrie: The store of a romantic wedding leaked out here today when Miss Nellie Katherine Bunyan, society editor of the Daily Leader, confirmed to lady friends the rumor that she was married here several days ago to a prominent young attorney, and will leave Guthrie Saturday to live permanently at Lawton. The groom is said to be Frank Jennings, who with his brother, Al Jennings, are practicing law at Lawton. ========= Tulsa Daily World. (Tulsa, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 1906 A Romantic Wedding A romantic wedding in which figured the dashing and brilliant society editor of the Guthrie Leader, Miss Nellie Catherine Bunyan, to Frank Jennings, a prominent lawyer of Lawton, was celebrated at Guthrie last week. The wedding took place at 8 o'clock at the residence of the United States marshal and Mrs. Abernathy, friends of the bridal couple. Judge J.C. Strang spoke the marriage ceremony. Mrs. Abernathy played Mendelssohn's wedding march. Following the ceremony during the offering of congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Abernathy played softly a duet from Lohengrin's bridal song. Before the marriage the bridal couple plighted their troth beneath a green elm tree, just as the full moon rose over the horizon, and the bride plucked leaves from the tree and passed them to the wedding guests. This pretty scene was taken from an old Indian custom, which promised prosperity and happiness to a young couple who thus plighted their troth, and ___h and long life to those whom the young bride presented with the oaken leaves. The wedding guests included Miss Annie Abernathy, of Frederick; Deputy marshal Jones of Shawnee, house guests of the Abernathys, and Marshal and Mrs. Abernathy and their children. Owing to the illness of the bride's father, at his home in Pond Creek, he and Mrs. Bunyan were unable to attend. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html