A PICTURESQUE WEDDING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 6, 8 January 1915, Page 6

A PICTURESQUE WEDDING.

TAMMANY BOSS AND INDIAN GIRL. A picturesque wedding was celebrated in New York the'other day, when Richard W. Croker, the old-time chief of Tammany Hall, who has returned to America after a sojourn of many years in Ireland, was joined in matri-mony-with Miss Bula Benton Edmondson, a member of the Cherokee Indian tribe.' The bride is fifty years the junior of her'husband., Her age is given as 23, while Croker is 73. Many reports relative to the Indian girl were published after her engagement became known. To settle some of the questions raised she gave to the -newspapers on the day of hoi- marriage a •typewritten in which she stated that she is"'" known as Princess Sequoyah, or Ketaw Kalunluchy, among her tribe. Her father, the statement continued, was Michael Smith "Edmond.son, a descendant of Roger de Montmorency, who commanded the van of the Norman army at the Battle of Hastings, and her mother • was Galela Welch, descended from the famous Chief Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee alphabet. Crokor will take his young Indian bride to his.home in.lreland, after a honeymoon in Florida^,,...„.„_,