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- "YOUNG COUPLE SURPRISES FRIENDS
"The marriage of Miss Kathryn Taylor and Othel V. Mitchell on New Year's eve came as a surprise to their many friends in this city and county. While close friends understood that the couple were engaged they did not know that they intended to be married at this time. The wedding ceremony was quietly performed by the Rev. Harold Hunt, pastor of the Bethel Baptist church at his home at LaGrange about eleven o'clock in the evening. The young people were accompanied by Eugene Taylor, brother of the bride, and Vernon Brinkley. Mrs Mitchell is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Taylor of north of this city. For several years she has been teaching school in Chicago and the marriage occurred while she was home on a Christmas vacation. Mr. Mitchell is a son of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Mitchell and until recently was associated with his father in conducting a bus line between this city and Quincy. It is understood the young couple will make their home in Chicago." -- Palmyra Spectator, Jan ?, 1931
Until, I saw the above clipping, I never knew that Kathryn and Othel had ben married with such haste and secrecy, although, now that I think of it, there were never any wedding pictures in evidence. I wonder what my grandparents, particularly my grandmother, thought about their only daughter's depriving them of the chance to give her a big wedding? I don't think that the marriage was a great success. Othel apparently drank excessively on occasion. She was a teatotalling Southern Baptist. He liked hunting, fishing, and being "with the boys." She liked the symphony, opera, and clothes. She didn't particularly like to cook. They never had any children. She taught throughout her marriage. Was this because he was sometimes unemployed or because she liked the luxuries afforded by two incomes? -- LKL
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Taylor Family Genealogy
