MARRIED IN CEMETERY.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 28 April 1917, Page 5

MARRIED IN CEMETERY.

SOLVING THE QUESTION OF A QUIET WEDDING.

Married in a cemetery! That was

the way E. K. Eicholtz, an Abilene undertaker, solved the question of a quiet wedding.” He and Miss Ruth Marion were made husband and wife in the cemetery there several weeks ago, hut the news has past hecoina public. The couple, desiring to keep the marriage secret, had it performed at night. The secret was not revealed until their return from their honeymoon. From various accounts the story goes like this: “We’ll make it a quiet wedding,” said Eicholtz, when he and his sweetheart decided to be married. “I’ve got the idea.” “I knew you’d get it,” said the girl. “Wher e will we have it?” “In the cemetery,” responded Eicholtz, triumphantly. Miss Marion ventured to point out that .a graveyard was not the gayest place in the world. “Why,” said Eicholtz, “T’ve spent some of the happiest days of my life in cemeteries.”

Eicholtz was in favour of having the wedding at midnight, but Miss Marion said she’d have to draw the line somewhere and positively refused to consider any hour after 9.30 o’clock in the v evening. He said V-it always seemed to him that midnight was the cheerfullest possible time around a cemetery. But Miss Marion was firm, and 9.30 it was. Confirming the news upon his return from his honeymoon, Eicholtz said it wa s a great ceremony. “Mrs Eicholtz wasn’t scared, or at least if she was I could not notice it,” he adcTecT. “And it was solemn—why, ' you couldn't imagine anything more impressive. It was as good ag a funeral.”