A Double Wedding
Two railroad officials from Waco married two sisters from Tennessee in a joint ceremony at their uncle's Austin home, a small society item capturing a holiday-season wedding now utterly forgotten.
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The Austin Weekly Statesman · December 24, 1896 · Page 6
1 min readYesterday morning at the residence of Col. T. W. Foltz, the uncle of the two young ladies, there was a double wedding. The participants being Messrs. George P. Herzberg and J. A. Jenkins of Waco, prominent railroad officials of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas system, and Misses Mattie and Dorothy Foltz.
These young ladies are Tennesseeans, but have been spending the winter here with their uncle. Immediately upon the conclusion of the ceremony the bridal party took the noon train for a visit to the brides' home in Tennessee, where the honeymoon will be happily spent enjoying the Xmas tides.
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