MARRIED IN WINCHESTER

The Winchester Sun

Newspaper clipping came from scrapbook of Susan Waldridge Hurt, wife of Elijah Hurt. Contributed by Sandra Hurt Norris.

A courtship, which began several years ago, culminated in an elopement and marriage of a Garrard County couple in this city Thursday afternoon. The contracting parties were Miss Agnes Miles and Mr. Hurbert Carter both of Garrard County, and they were united in marriage at the residence of the officiating minister, Rev. G. W. Perryman, at 3:30 o'clock.

Parental objection was the cause of the elopment when the parents of the bride registered an objection to the proposal of marriage they decided to slip away and have the nuptial know tied in some other place other than their home city. The couple drove to Lancaster, where they took a train for Richmond Thursday morning and in that city a marriage license was procured. Fearing an effort would be made to stop them in their efforts to get married, they came on to Winchester on the afternoon train, and went immediately to the home of Rev. Perryman on French Avenue, where they were made man and wife.

Immediately after the ceremony they stopped at the Brown-Proctoria Hotel, where they spent the night and left Friday morning for their future home in Garrard County.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Campbell Miles, who reside a few miles from Lancaster, and is a member of one of the prominent Garrard County families, while the groom is properous and well-to-do farmer of the county.