Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1901 — The Perkins-Stoekton Wedding. [ARTICLE]

The Perkins-Stoekton Wedding.

A long and doubtless happy courtship, in which the ‘'course of true love” seems to have run smoothly from the beginning, came to a blissful end Wednesday evening, when Mr. Jay W. M. Stockton and Miss Stella E. Perkins, were married at the residence of the bride’s parents, in the extreme southeast part of town. The groom is the only child and heir of Mrs. Almira Stockton, and the only grandson of John Makeever, one of Jasper county’s very wealthiest citizens. The bride is the oldest child of Mr. and Mrs. Judson H. Perkins. The ceremony took, place promply at 8 o’clock, the handsome and stately bridal couple entering the room with the officiating clergyman, Rev. Clarence D, Royse, pastor of Trinity M. E. church. The bride was dressed in white and carried white roses.

There were no bridesmaids or best man. The ceremony took place in the presence of some 40 or 50 invited gue3ts. Soon after'the wedding an elegant wedding supper was served, and at 11:30 the bridal pair took the train for Lafayette and at which place, and at Delphi, they will visit with relatives for a few days. On their return they will make their home in Mrs Stockton’s spacious residence, on Division street. There was a large display of elegant and valuable wedding presents. Those present from out of town were Mrs. Cecelia Perkins, of Morris, 111., Mr. R. E. Peikins, of Mishawaka, Ind., Misses Edith and Maud and Mr. Elmor Brumbach, of Mouticello, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Porter, of Delphi, and Mrs. Clarence Sigler, of Kersey.