Marriage Announcements in the Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.),
April-June 1897
Apr. 12—Marriage to Prevent Elopement. May Sickman, the 18-year-old daughter of Mrs. Rosa Stoakes of Berkley near Norfolk, was married Tuesday night to a young steamboat fireman named John Wood, 23 years of age, at Virginia street, Berkley. The ceremony was performed by Rev. R. M. Chandler, of Chestnut M. E. Church. The marriage was the result of a very short courtship. Mrs. Stoakes consented to her young daughter’s marriage to prevent her from eloping. It is said that the couple will go to Philadelphia to reside. …
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