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The World of Society Mrs. Harris and Mr. Pickett To Be Married Today Other Weddings of the “Best Day of All” — A Debutante Lunch- eon - Notes Mrs. Sallie Vawter Harris and Mr. Theo- dore J. Pickett are to be married at 4 o’clock this afternoon at the residence of the brother-in-law and sister of the former, Judge and Mrs. William A.Milliken, 2017 Massachusetts avenue. The Rev. Frederick D. Power of the Vermont Avenue Christian Church will officiate. There will be no at- tendants, and Judge Milliken will give the bride away. As both the bride and her sis- ter are in mourning, only the immediate members of the family are to be present. The bride has been engaged for several years in journalistic work, and has a wide acquaintance in society, to whom the an- nouncement of her marriage will have a great interest. She is a native of Kentucky, the daughter of the late Rev. Philemon and Mrs. Martha Humphreys Vawter. She belongs to the Beverley, Humphreys, Jamie- son and Vawter familie...

"Social and Personal," The Washington Post (Washington, District of Columbia), 14 November 1906, page 7; digital image, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : viewed online September 2019). Mrs. Sallie Vawter Harris and Mr. Theodore J. Pickett will be married at 4 o'clock this afternoon at the home of Mrs. Harris' brother-in-law and sister, Judge and Mrs. William A. Milliken, 2017 Massachusetts avenue. There will be no attendants. On account of mourning, the ceremony will be witnessed only by the immediate members of the family. IT will be performed by Rev. Frederick D. Power, pastor of the Vermont avenue Christian Church. Mrs. Harris is a native of Kentucky, a daughter of the late Rev. Philemon Vawter and of the late Mrs. Martha Humphreys Vawter. She belongs to the Beverley, Humphreys, Jamison, and Vawter families of Virginia, Ken- tucky and Mississippi. Mr. Pickett, who is the son of the late Col. John T. Pickett, of Confederate fame, was in t...