Orcutt Marriages and Obituaries
Marriage Announcements
Following are the marriage announcement of Florence Pluma Waters and Robert William Orcutt and some poetry which appears to have been pasted into pg. 124 of a scrap book next to their announcement. I believe that this scrap book was William Edwin Orcutt’s. He was quite devoted to his daughters-in-law; he never had daughters of his own.
WATERS – ORCUTT
8-20-1900
Marriage of Former Well-known young Geneva People.
Last Thursday evening the home of Mr. And Mrs. D.W. Waters, of Austinburg, was the scene of a most joyous wedding. AT this time their eldest daughter, Florence was united in marriage to Mr. Robert Orcutt, of the same place. It will be remembered by many that Mr. Orcutt was formerly employed at the dry goods store of R.B. Kenney & Co., and at the hardware store of A.F. Miller, of this place. He was well and favorably known in this vicinity. Miss Waters is also well known in Geneva having been a stenographer for the Geneva Tool Company for several years. She then did court work in Geauga County, next she did stenographer for the Lozier Bicycle Co., of Cleveland; then for the Keating Bicycle Co., of Massachusetts, and for the past two or three years she has held a position with Gilbert & Hills, attorneys at law, Cleveland, Ohio.
The parlor of the Waters home was beautifully decorated with smilax and cut flowers. At six o’clock standard time the strains of “Faithful and True,” from Lohengrin was heard, and to this sweet wedding march the bride and groom entered the parlor and took their places in front of a beautiful bank of flowers and foliage. Rev. Mr. McClelland, of Frederickstown, who was formerly Miss Waters’ teacher, pronounced the words that made them and wife. The impressive ring ceremony was used. Miss Elvira Waters was maid of honor and Mr. George Money, of Chicago, officiated as best man. The bride and maid of honor were beautifully gowned in white. After the ceremony the bride and groom received the usual congratulations from their friends. Following this, fine refreshments were served. The couple were the recipients of many useful and beautiful gifts, consisting largely of silver and cut glass. The bride’s present from the groom was an exquisite pendant of pearls with a large diamond in the center. This was attached to a tiny chain, and was the only ornament worn by the bride.
When the bridge and groom came down the stairs and got into the carriage they received a storm of rice and flowers, and the carriage was found to be decorated with white ribbons. They were taken to Ashtabula and took the train for Cleveland. They took the boat next evening for Detroit, whence they will take a trip up the lakes to Duluth. From there they go to Sioux City, Iowa, where they will make their future home. Mr. Orcutt has three brothers at that place, two engaged in hardware and one in the dry good business. He has a fine position at his brother’s dry good establishment.
At the wedding there were guests present from Geneva, Rock Creek, Garrettsville, Chardon, Warren, Cleveland, Sioux City, Iowa, and other places. Mrs. And Mrs. Ward Martin, of this place attended the wedding.
WE TWO
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox in the Century
The formatting is exactly as it is printed. There are places where I can’t tell the difference between a comma and a period and guessed.
We two make home of any place we go;
We to find joy in any kind of weather;
Or if the earth is clothed in bloom or snow,
If summer days invite or bleak winds blow.
What matters it, if we two are together?
We two, we two, we make our world, our weather.
We two make banquets of the plainest fare;
In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure;
We hide with wreaths the furrowed brow of care,
And win to smiles the set lips of despair.
For us life always moves with lilting measure;
We two, we two, we make our joy, our pleasure.
We two find youth renewed with every dawn.
Each day holds something of an unknown glory.
We waste no thought on grief or pleasure gone;
Tricked out like hope, time leads us on and on.
And thrums upon his harp new song or story,
We two, we two, find the paths of glory.
We two make heaven here on this little earth;
We do not need to wait for realms eternal,
We know the use of tears, know sorrow’s worth.
And pain for us is always love’s rebirth.
Our paths lead closely by the paths supernal:
We two, we two, we live in love eternal.
HER QUESTIONS
By J.M. Lewis, in Houston Post
The formatting is exactly as it is printed.
My little girl crawled up last night
Into my lap and said,
The while she snuggled down to me,
And laid her tousled head
Close to my breast: “Oh Dad, I hear
Your heart dess tick!” said she,
“Dess like a watch! Why does it tick?
Dad, does it tick for me?
“Dad, if I weren’t here, suppose,
And never’d be again,
Would it run down like your watch does?
Would it stop ticking then?
Or would it just keep ticking, Dad,
An’ tick for ‘most a year?
How could it tick, dear Dad, for me,
Suppose I wasn’t here?
“An’ does it tick for me all day
When you’re away in town?
An’ if you had no little girl,
Dad, would your heart run down?
And is it a stemwinder, Dad,
Just like your watch is, say?
And does it tick for me as loud
When I’m out to play?
“An does – an’ does” – her voice grew faint
Her head sunk lower down.
And one wee maid had left her Dad
And gone to Slumbertown.
And I – I thought: “You tousle-head!”
And hugged her closer, too,
“ ‘Tis love that keeps my heart wound up
And makes it tick for you!”
WOOLEVER -- ORCUTT
From pg. 114 of W.E. Orcutt’s Scrapbook. The handwritten date is 1894.
The beautiful church at Austinburg, with its tinted memorial windows and historical tablets bearing honored names, was filled with a brilliant company Monday, Sept. 10th, to attend the marriage of Miss Lydia Emerson Woolever to Mr. Willard Merton Orcutt.
Prof. J. Waldo Mather presided at the organ and played the Mendelssohn march. The ushers were Mr. G.W. Mooney, of Oberlin, G.F. Mooney, Fred Andrus and Mr. A.C. Woolever, brother of the bride. The maid of honor was Miss Elma S. Woolever, her sister.
The Episcopalian ritual was impressively pronounced by Rev. R.G. McClelland, principal of Grand River Institute, and Rev. M. B. Morris invoked the divine blessing.
A pleasant reception followed at the home of the bride, and about fifty friends accompanied Mr. And Mrs. Orcutt to the Pennsylvania station to see them off. After visiting Mr. And Mrs. E.O. Orcutt at Garrettsville, they will stop in Cleveland and Chicago, en route to Sioux City, Iowa, their future home, to which they are followed by the sincerest best wishes of many loyal friends.
AUSTINBURG
Woolever – Orcutt
From pg. 114 of W.E. Orcutt’s Scrapbook. Handwritten date is 10-10-94. this is a different account of the same wedding.
Fully two hundred and fifty guests were assembled at 1:30 Monday afternoon at the Congregational Church in Austinburg to witness the solemnization of the marriage ceremony which made miss Lydia Emerson Woolever and Willard Merton Orcutt husband and wife.
Precisely at the hour appointed the wedding party arrived at the door and as the organ, played by Prof. J. Waldo Mather, pealed forth the beautiful strains of Mendelssohn’s wedding march the ushers, Mr. G.W. Mooney, of Oberlin and Mr. A.C. Woolever, brother of the bride, entered the east aisle and led the way to the altar of the choicest of the season’s blossoms and foliage before the platform. Following these came the maid of honor, miss Elma S. Woolever, sister of the bride, in a lovely white mull dress; and the bride in her beautiful cream India silk ornamented with bride’s roses, which also adorned her head from which hung in graceful folds the veil, following her two ushers, G.F. Mooney and Fred Andruss of Austinburg. As the party reached the altar where the Rev. R.G. McClelland and Rev. M.B. Morris awaited them the groom and his best man, Robert W. Orcutt, of Ashtabula, entered from the side door and proceeded with measured tread to the happy strains of music to join them, when the Rev. McClelland with the brief Episcopal service pronounced the happy couple husband and wife, the Rev. Morris asking the blessing of the “Divine Hand” upon the union thus formed, when the party repaired to the rear of the church where congratulation and good-bys were spoken by the many friends of Mr. And Mrs. Orcutt who were to leave soon for their western home. Immediately following which a reception was given the relatives at the home of the bride where delightful refreshments ere served and an hour of joyful greetings and farewell words passed all too quickly, and the happy couple were obliged to leave to take the train but not without a goodly quantity of rice, old shoes, etc., to form reminders of the occasion, and fully fifty of their friends to bid them good-bye at the station.
They will spend a few days with the groom’s brother Mr. E.O. Orcutt and wife of Garrettsville, O., and visiting friends in Cleveland, Chicago, and other places will reach Sioux City, Ia., about the 20th, where a beautifully furnished home awaits their occupancy and where Mr. Orcutt has been engaged in business in the firm of Ochsner & Orcutt Hardware company for four years past.
The tokens of love and esteem were numerous and very valuable, consisting of a superb dining room set, parlor and chamber sets, and many other household furnishings, silverware, linen, rugs, etc., and will ever serve as reminders of their friends in their old home, who while regretting much that they will not make their home with them, wish them all the happiness possible in the home of their choice and hope that fortune may take the hand of these two of Austinburg’s most accomplished and popular young people.
Following appears to be part of Pearl’s wedding announcement.
Mrs. Harry Phillips Austin
Mrs. Harry Phillips Austin, prior to her marriage Thursday was Miss Pearl Orcutt, daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Walter W. Orcutt. Mr. And Mrs. Austin will make their home in Summit, N.J.
Obituaries
Pearl Orcutt Austin
Sioux City Journal
Pearl O. Austin, 98, formerly of 3826 Peters Ave., died Saturday, Dec. 9, 1995, at a Sioux City nursing home after a brief illness.
, died Saturday, Dec. 9, 1995, at a Sioux City nursing home after a brief illness.
Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at the Nelson-Berger Northside Chapel with the Rev. Richard Smith officiating. Burial will be in Graceland park Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service.
Mrs. Austin was born Dec. 22, 1896, in Sioux City, the daughter of Walter and Nellie (Ochsner) Orcutt. She attended Sioux City public schools and graduated from Central High School in 1914. She attended Morningside College, University of South Dakota and Lake Erie College in Ohio. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority. She was employed by her father, Walter W. Orcutt, at Orcutt Hardware Co. in Sioux City during World War II and later pursued a self-employed sales career in new York City and Sioux City.
Mrs. Austin was a 50-year plus member of First Congregational Church. She was a 50-year member of EY Chapter PEO, the Junior League and Gospel Mission. She was formerly active in the Central Committee of Republican Women and a charter member of the Golden Years Club in Morningside. She was a past board member of the original Little Theatre in Sioux City.
Survivors include a son, W. Phil Austin of Honolulu, Hawaii, a daughter, Harriett “Betty” Austin of Portland, Ore.; a cousin, Alton Ochsner of Sioux City and a niece and nephews.
She was preceded in death by twin sons and a sister, Clara Mae Flamer.
Following appears to be part of Pearl’s wedding announcement.
Mrs. Harry Phillips Austin
Mrs. Harry Phillips Austin, prior to her marriage Thursday was Miss Pearl Orcutt, daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Walter W. Orcutt. Mr. And Mrs. Austin will make their home in Summit, N.J.
Robert W. Orcutt
Likely the Sioux City Journal
Robert W. Orcutt, 27, of Orlando, Fla., former Sioux City resident, died Monday at Orlando after a lingering Illness. (Handwritten here is “Sep. 22, ’44) Mr. Orcutt was born February 2, 1874, at Austinburg, Ohio. he came to Sioux City in 1898. he lived here until about 12 years ago. He was married to Florence Waters August 23, 1900, at Austinburg.
Mr. Orcutt was prominent in commercial circles here for 30 years. He held positions with Davidson Brothers company and T.S. Martin company. He was active in public life, especially in the Masonic Lodge, Chamber of Commerce, Lions Club, and Knife and Fork club. He also was a member of First Congregational Church here. Since leaving Sioux City Mr. Orcutt had made his home at Citronelle, Ala., and Orlando.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. A.E. Andress of Hiram, Ohio; Mrs. H.D. Wilson of Sioux City, and Mrs. Gordon Siefkin of Memphis, Tenn.; one son, Dr. Frederic Scott of Blacksburg, Va.; two brothers, W.M. Orcutt and W.W. Orcutt, both of Sioux City, and six grandchildren.
Burial was at 4 p.m. Tuesday in lake Rose cemetery at Orlando
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