Daughter of Samuel Baldwin Marks Young and Margaret J. McFadden of Pittsburg, PA; She married Brigadier General John Thornton Knight, son of John Hughes Knight and Cornelia Alice Bland of Nottoway County, VA on 9-2-1886 at Ft. Hancock, Hudspeth, TX. They retired in San Francisco CA.
KNIGHT - YOUNG
Rev. James Hulme, of the Episcopal church, left on this morning's train for Fort Hancock, to perform a double marriage today at 3 p.m. The contracting parties are James S. Knight, of the Third Cavalry, USA and Miss Edith Young, and Geo. M. Read, of the Fifth Cavalry, USA, and Miss Burton Young. The young ladies are the daughters of Col. Young the commanding officer at Fort Hancock, and the occasion will be doubly, or rather trebly romantic, from the fact that the Colonel and Mrs. Young will celebrate their silver wedding at the same time. A great many invitations have been issued, and the affair will be the society event of West Texas. After the marriage the bridal party will come to El Paso to take the Santa Fe train east, where they go to spend their honeymoon together. (El Paso Times, El Paso, Tex, Sept 2, 1886
KNIGHT - YOUNG
Rev. James Hulme, of the Episcopal church, left on this morning's train for Fort Hancock, to perform a double marriage today at 3 p.m. The contracting parties are James S. Knight, of the Third Cavalry, USA and Miss Edith Young, and Geo. M. Read, of the Fifth Cavalry, USA, and Miss Burton Young. The young ladies are the daughters of Col. Young the commanding officer at Fort Hancock, and the occasion will be doubly, or rather trebly romantic, from the fact that the Colonel and Mrs. Young will celebrate their silver wedding at the same time. A great many invitations have been issued, and the affair will be the society event of West Texas. After the marriage the bridal party will come to El Paso to take the Santa Fe train east, where they go to spend their honeymoon together. (El Paso Times, El Paso, Tex, Sept 2, 1886
Daughter of Samuel Baldwin Marks Young and Margaret J. McFadden of Pittsburg, PA; She married Brigadier General John Thornton Knight, son of John Hughes Knight and Cornelia Alice Bland of Nottoway County, VA on 9-2-1886 at Ft. Hancock, Hudspeth, TX. They retired in San Francisco CA.
KNIGHT - YOUNG
Rev. James Hulme, of the Episcopal church, left on this morning's train for Fort Hancock, to perform a double marriage today at 3 p.m. The contracting parties are James S. Knight, of the Third Cavalry, USA and Miss Edith Young, and Geo. M. Read, of the Fifth Cavalry, USA, and Miss Burton Young. The young ladies are the daughters of Col. Young the commanding officer at Fort Hancock, and the occasion will be doubly, or rather trebly romantic, from the fact that the Colonel and Mrs. Young will celebrate their silver wedding at the same time. A great many invitations have been issued, and the affair will be the society event of West Texas. After the marriage the bridal party will come to El Paso to take the Santa Fe train east, where they go to spend their honeymoon together. (El Paso Times, El Paso, Tex, Sept 2, 1886
KNIGHT - YOUNG
Rev. James Hulme, of the Episcopal church, left on this morning's train for Fort Hancock, to perform a double marriage today at 3 p.m. The contracting parties are James S. Knight, of the Third Cavalry, USA and Miss Edith Young, and Geo. M. Read, of the Fifth Cavalry, USA, and Miss Burton Young. The young ladies are the daughters of Col. Young the commanding officer at Fort Hancock, and the occasion will be doubly, or rather trebly romantic, from the fact that the Colonel and Mrs. Young will celebrate their silver wedding at the same time. A great many invitations have been issued, and the affair will be the society event of West Texas. After the marriage the bridal party will come to El Paso to take the Santa Fe train east, where they go to spend their honeymoon together. (El Paso Times, El Paso, Tex, Sept 2, 1886
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