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Medicine Lodge, Barber County, Kansas
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Unusual wedding of Mary Glover and Joseph Williams, a colored couple, at Mary Help Catholic church in Aiken, South Carolina, the first such in a white people's church, drawing a large crowd and attended by friends with a reception afterward.
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A very unusual wedding was solemnized at the Mary Help Catholic church recently when Mary Glover and Joseph Williams, both colored, were married, Father Lannigan officiating.
This was the first time that a colored couple had ever married in a white people's church in Aiken, and consequently it drew a large crowd both white and colored.
Both parties to the match are well known Aiken colored people, and many of their friends were present to witness the ceremony.
The bride and her attendants were dressed neatly and becomingly in white, and the bridegroom and his attendants wore Prince Albert suits with white gloves. After the wedding the bridal party repaired to the home of the bride's mother, where a largely attended reception was held and where many presents, gifts of both white and colored people, were displayed.—Aiken Journal.
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Mary Glover and Joseph Williams, both colored, were married at Mary Help Catholic church in Aiken by Father Lannigan, the first such wedding for a colored couple in a white people's church, attracting a large crowd; the bridal party wore formal attire and held a reception at the bride's mother's home with gifts from white and colored people.