Saturday Spotting - Heir of the Valentine Estate Weds

Appeared on Saturday the 23^rd of October in 1875 in the Indianapolis Sentinel out of Indianapolis, Indiana

WEDDED WEALTH.

TWO VAST ESTATES UNITED BY THE TENDER TIE OF HUSBAND AND WIFE.

     The Fall River correspondent of the New

York Herald contributed the following to

Wednesday’s issue of that paper: The mar-

riage of Miss Ella E. Valentine and Walter

M. Green, so long the theme of social

interest in this city, came of the evening at

the Valentine mansion, which had been

most elaborately decorated for the occasion.

The event called together a large company of

personal friends form their vicinity and the

large cities. Miss Valentine is the young-

est heir to the great Valentine estate, which

has descended to the heirs of the fourth

generation, the ancestor bequeathing it hav-

ing survived all his children and

passing it over the head of his

grandson about thirty-six years ago.

The aggregate at the present would place

it among the largest fortunes in the land,

and a very large portion of it is still invested

in established enterprises that have greatly

enriched this city. Mr. W M. Green is the

son of a wealthy merchant of Providence,

whose fortune places him among the solid

men of that city. The interior of the man-

sion where the ceremony was performed

was splendidly decorated with fortunes of

roses, smilax and fern. The wedding

ceremony took place under a finely

wrought arch of flowers with.

A FLORAL CROWN IN THE CENTER.

The refectory, improvised for the occasion

outside of domicile, was rendered very

attractive and beautiful with its profusion

of flowers and splendor of illuminations.

The lawn in front of the mansion was also

illuminated with about thirty glass globes

and stars lit up with gas. An arbor was

built from the front door to the sidewalk,

and the latter was carpeted to the street.

A steamer was charted to bring the guest

from Providence, and at the hour appointed

for the ceremony there were about 800

spectators. The ceremony was performed

by the Rev. A.K. P. Small, of the First

Baptist Church, in a very impressive man-

ner, and many were the congratulations

showered upon the happy pair. The music

for the occasion was rendered by an

orchestra from Providence. The presents

were numerous, elaborate in design and

combined the useful and beautiful In-

cluded in the display were statuettes,

candlesticks, engravings, chromos, tea and

dinner sets, and lastly a pair of solitaire

diamond ear drops, a present from the

bridegroom to this bride; a magnificent chro-

nometer with Swiss watch chain and pend-

ants, valued at $1,000, a present from the

bride to her husband. The newly married

couple left this evening for San Francisco,

where they purpose to spend the winter. 

(*above article found on Genealogy Bank website)

Only One Room Vacant

Well that time of the year has rolled around again, one of my favorite holidays "Halloween". So yes you have guessed right, as years past I wanted to share things that I have found while search on GenealogyBank.com that fit within the spirit of Halloween. So here we go with the first article  on a haunted room at the inn.  On election night would you sleep in a haunted room at the inn?

Printed Saturday the 14th of August 1875 in the Stoughton Sentinel out of Stoughton, Massachusetts 

A room in the principal part of a country town had reputation of being haunted. Nobody would sleep in it, and it was therefore shut up; but it so happened that at an election the inn was chock full, an there was only the haunted room unoccupied. A gentleman’s gamekeeper came to the inn, exceedingly fatigued by a long journey, and wanted a bed. He was informed that unless he chose to occupy the haunted room, he must seek a bed elsewhere.

“Haunted!” exclaimed he; “stuff and nonsenses! I’ll sleep in it. Ghost or demon, I’ll take a look at what haunts it.”

Accordingly, after fortifying himself with a pipe and tankard, he took up his quarters in the haunted chamber, and retired to rest. He had not lain down many minutes when the bed shook under him fearfully. He sprang out of bed, struck a light (for he had taken the precaution to place a box of Lucifer matches by his bedside), and made a careful examination of the room, but could discover nothing. The courageous fallow would not return to bed but could discover nothing. The courageous fellow would not return to bed but remained watching some time. Presently he saw the bed shake violently; the floor was firm; nothing moved, but the bed. Determined, if possible, to find out the cause of this bed-quake, he looked in the bed, and near the bed and not seeing anything to account for the shaking, which every now and then seemed to seize on the bed, he at last pulled it from the wall.

Then the “murder come out.” The sign-board of the inn was fastened to the outer wall by a nut and screw, which came through to the back of the bed, and when the wind swung the signboard to the fro, the movements was communicated to the bed, causing it to shake in a most violent manner. The gamekeeper, delighted at having hunted up the ghost, informed the landlord the next morning of the real nature of his unearthly visitor, and was handsomely rewarded for rendering a room, hitherto useless, now quite serviceable.

All the ghost stories on record might no doubt have been traced to similar sources, if those to whom the “ghost” appeared had been as “plucky” as or gamekeeper.