Marriages: Arbuthnot-Maxwell - Submitted for the USGenWeb by Richard P. Sevier 1/8/2014

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Arbuthnot-Maxwell Wedding - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal June 9, 1928

A beautiful home wedding was solemnized on the second of June when Mrs. Matilda Bowie Maxwell gave 
in marriage her daughter, Routh, to Mr. J. Paul Arbuthnot, Reverend Haywood, officiating. 

The scene was laid on the lawn of the Yerger home, under the stately old trees, where an improvised 
altar was temporarily established. A prettier background could not be found than the flower-decked 
trellis which extended on both sides for several yards, completing an already naturally beautiful 
picture. At six-thirty, to the strains of Lohengrin's Wedding March, played by Mrs. Robert G. Clark, 
two little pages in white, bearing dainty cushions on which the happy pair later knelt as they were 
pronounced husband and wife, entered and placed the cushions. The pages were George Bradley and 
Billy Burleigh, warm little friends of the bride. After them came the Maid of Honor, Miss Dorothy Maxwell, 
sister of the bride, in a lovely gown of pale orange georgette and lace. She was extremely good to 
look upon, her blonde beauty being in contrast with her sister's brunette type. Then came the bride --
all in white & georgette and lace--- old lace having been in the family for more than a generation, 
with a full length veil caught in her dark hair and sweeping gracefully behind her. Never was she more 
beautiful, as queenly, gracious, altogether entrancing she met the groom at the altar and was given 
into his keeping by her mother. Mrs. Maxwell was very handsomely gowned in white. The groom was 
accompanied by his best man, Mr. Rueben Kendrick, of Shreveport, who stood with him during the 
impressive ring ceremony of the Episcopal Church. After the sweet and solemn vows were taken, an 
informal reception was held. Ice cream, cake and candies were served to more than a hundred guests.

The wedding cake, a mammoth heart, was the work of Mrs. Allen T. Bowie of Natchez, aunt of the bride. 
The cutting of this cake afforded much merriment to the young people as various charms of deep and 
awful meaning were drawn forth. Mrs. Arbuthnot is the eldest daughter of Mrs. M. B. Maxwell and the 
late Colonel F. L. Maxwell. She is an accomplished young lady, having graduated from the Tallulah 
High School and attended All Saints' College at Vicksburg, Brenau at Gainesville, Georgia; later 
finishing at Miss Lynn's School in Shreveport. She has endeared herself to old and young and hosts 
of admirers wish for her a long and happy married life. 

Mr. Arbuthnot is a young man of sterling qualities, holding a responsible position with a leading 
gas company of Shreveport. 

Mr. and Mrs. Arbuthnot left on the midnight train for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. They will be 
at home to their friends after July first at Shreveport, La. The out of town guests who attended 
the wedding were Mrs. James Powell and son, James, Jr., of Belzoni, Miss; Mr. and Mrs. Allen T. Bowie, 
Misses Mary Ethlyn, Eliza and Mr. Allen Bowie, Jr., Miss Pearl Rowlins, and Mr. Andrew Learned, of 
Natchez; Mr. and Mrs. Gilhula, Mr. and Mrs. John Potts, Miss Alma Potts, Rev, and Mrs. Haywood, of 
Monroe, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Maxwell, Mrs. L. L. Merritt, Miss Ruth Merritt, Mrs. A. G. Bray, 
Mrs. Pierce, of Tallulah; Mrs. Edwin Gilette, of Shreveport.