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Tulsa Daily World. (Tulsa, Indian Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 181, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 19, 1911
	The wedding of Miss Gertrude Lillian Downing and Mr. S.H. Latimer will be celebrated today 
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Downing on South Main.  Miss Downing is a sister of Mr. C.M. Downing.  
The wedding will be attended with quiet simplicity owning to the fact that the family of the bride-to-be 
is in mourning.  Miss Downing is of Kansas City and Mr. Latimer comes from Sapulpa.

Tulsa Daily World. (Tulsa, Indian Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 182, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 20, 1911
	An afternoon wedding of sweet simplicity yesterday was that of Miss Gertrude Lillian Downing 
of Kansas City and Mr. Samuel Harrison Latimer of Muskogee.  The ceremony was read at the home of Mr. 
and Mrs. C.M. Downing, Jr., 1123 South Main Street, brother of the bride, and was witnessed only by 
members of the families of both bride and groom.  Rev. Conkwright, pastor of the First Baptist church 
of Sapulpa, read the service which was sweet and simple.  In the ceremony room the color tone was green 
and white, the marriage altar being formed from tall palms with a base of ferns and outlined with potted 
blooming spirea; in the receiving hall were potted plants and in the dining room were potted blooming 
hydrangeas; the table was laid with a cluny cloth and over this half blown long stemmed pink roses were 
strewn in unstudied effect; the center floral piece was a tall vase of pink and white carnations intermingled 
with fern fronds.  The hour was 2 o’clock and owing to the quietness there was no music.  Miss Alice Edwards 
and Mr. Whistler, both of Sapulpa, were the attendants.  Miss Downing wore a white lingerie gown with lace trimmings 
and fashioned with a slightly raised waistline with Princess panel front.  She carried a shower bouquet of white 
sweet peas caught with chiffon of the same shade.  Following the ceremony a wedding luncheon in the color tone of 
pink and white was served.  Miss Downing is the daughter of Mrs. C. M. Downing, Sr., of Kansas City, and is a girl 
universally loved for her good and true worth and her gracious manner and thoughtfulness for all with whom she comes 
in contact.  The groom until recently was one of Sapulpa’s popular members of the legal fraternity, but has recently 
moved to Muskogee.  Miss Downing formerly lived in this city.  The couple left on the afternoon train for Muskogee 
where they will make their future home followed by the good wishes of hosts of friends.  The bride’s going away gown 
was a tailored suit of gray with a flower trimmed hat.  The wedding was made extremely quiet owing to the death of the 
bride’s father some months ago.  Relatives present were Mrs. C.M. Downing, of Kansas City, mother of the bride; Mr. 
Will E. Downing of the same place, brother; Mrs. Latimer of Dublin, Tex., mother of the groom; Mr. and Mrs. Butte and 
two children of Muskogee, sister of the groom, and Mr. and Mrs. F.G. Shaw and daughter Madeline.