Wedding clipping: Esther Lorraine Mahaffey marries Gaillard FitzSimons Waterfall, Camden, December 21
Book 1, Page 602 ·1960–1970
Transcription
Bridal portrait caption:
MRS. GAILLARD FitzSIMONS WATERFALL
Mrs. Waterfall was Esther Lorraine Mahaffey prior to her wedding at 7:30 p.m. December 21 at Grace Episcopal Church in Camden. She is the daughter of Mrs. Loraine Wingo Mahaffey and the late Mr. Mahaffey of Camden. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hardy Waterfall of Columbia.
Article body (printed in two columns under the bridal portrait):
Miss Esther Lorraine Mahaffey And G. F. Waterfall Are Married
Grace Episcopal Church in Camden was the scene of the wedding of Miss Esther Lorraine Mahaffey and Gaillard FitzSimons Waterfall on Thursday, December 21, at 7:30 p.m. The Rev. Harry Ernest Lawhon Jr., officiated at the double-ring ceremony in the presence of a large assemblage of relatives and friends.
The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Loraine Wingo Mahaffey and the late Mr. Mahaffey of Camden, and the bridegroom’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hardy Waterfall of Columbia.
The wedding music was presented by Mrs. William Bratton deLoach, organist, and John Richards McCrae of Spartanburg.
Brass altar vases held mass[ed] arrangements of white roses and snapdragons, and white cathedral candles burned in [b]ranched brass candelabra.
Usher-groomsmen were Hugh McCutchen James Jr., James Archibald Hutto, Richard O’Neil Gaillard, all of Columbia; Charles Wesley Swisher and Steen Holtz Spove, both of Newberry.
George Howard Water[fall of] Atlanta, Ga., attended [his bro]ther as best man.
Mrs. Howard Hoff[…] [clipping torn — text continues into illegible area] …of Charlottsville, Va., the former Marietta Williams of Camden, was matron of honor. Bridal attendants were Mrs. J. Stephen Anderson of Butler, Pa., the former Barbara Baldauf of Camden; Mrs. Francis McFarland Haynie Jr. of Columbia, the former Rachel Montgomery of Camden; Mrs. Wylie Edward Mitchell Jr. of Columbia, the former Jane Cooper of Camden; Mrs. Andrew McConnell Faucette Jr., the former Harriott Gonzales Hampton of Columbia, cousin of the bride; and Miss Frances Wallace Taylor of Hampton, Va. They were dressed identically in formal gowns of American Beauty chiffon over peau de soie. The cage effect of the gowns was [clipping ends/torn]
AI Notes
A newspaper clipping pasted full-length on the album page, featuring a bridal portrait photograph above two columns of wedding-account text. The lower-right portion of the clipping is torn or worn. Year of the marriage is not printed on this clipping; the bride’s married name is ‘Mrs. Gaillard FitzSimons Waterfall’.
The bride’s cousin Harriott Gonzales Hampton (Mrs. Andrew McConnell Faucette Jr.) carries two notable Columbia surnames — Hampton and Gonzales — placing the bride’s mother (Loraine Wingo Mahaffey) in family connection with both lines. The groom’s middle name FitzSimons signals a FitzSimons descent on one side of the Waterfall family (most likely his mother’s); his parents are given here only as “Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hardy Waterfall of Columbia.” The clipping is undated on its face but internal evidence (a Thursday Dec. 21 wedding, parents’ designations as living/late) is consistent with 1961, 1967, or 1972 — Dec 21 was a Thursday in each of those years; the 1960–1970 date_range encompasses the two most likely candidates.