Miller - Burdette Marriage In Hillsboro
Mrs. J. D. Turk has returned from Hillsboro where she sang in the wedding of her cousin, Miss Elizabeth Burdette and Mr Chas. F. Miller Monday evening. The marriage took place at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Burdette. The bride has many friends here (Abilene) where she has made several visits. Many Abilene folk made her acquaintance when she was Princess Hillsboro, and received the Abilene trade trippers on their excursion of '23, when she had been selected as representative to the first pageant of the West Texas Fair. Elaborate decorations were used in the Burdette home for the wedding and the couple had a number of attendants. Mrs. Turk, with Mrs. Guthrie sang a duet, "I Live and Love," and a solo, "All Mine Alone." Mr. Miller is the Hill county superintendent of schools.
[Abilene Reporter News, September 12, 1926, transcribed by, Amanda Jowers] |
OUR TEXAS LETTER The following letter was written for the Herald several weeks ago but by some means was missing and consequently failed to reach us. We publish it however, as the writer was once a citizen of Marion , and has many friends in the county who will doubtless be glad to hear from him. HILL COUNTY, TEXAS Mr. Editor: As I have been a subscriber to your paper for some time and have never written to you before, I now wish to say through your columns that I have many friends in and around Hamilton that I would like very much to shake hands with. I have been in Hill County for some time and I think it is a good farming country. The rang however is about gone in this section and I have just returned from looking out a new country. I traveled about three weeks looking at some of the northwest Texas soil, also six days in=the Indian Territory , in some places there were hardly any roads, but deer and turkey were abundant. In my travels I journeyed over into Green = County , which is a new county not long since established, and people are just beginning to settle it up. It is situated about 300 miles northwest of Hill County , and I have decided to settle in green. I have a small bunch of cattle I aim to carry there, it is a good stock country and the land is very fine. The nearest railroad to where I am going is 37 miles, but a road is now being built which when finished will run within fifteen miles of where I proposed locating. Well, as I do not wish to occupy too much space in your valuable paper I will close by sending best respects to all and hoping that my few scattering remarks may be=of some interest to my friends in Old Marion, and that great success may attend the Herald. J. Q. W. From Marion Herald, Marion County AL , October
27, 1887 submitted by Veneta McKinney |
