AVERY-DUNCAN WEDDING CLAIMS INTEREST IN N.O.
The wedding of Miss Edith Avery, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Dudley Avery of Avery's Island, to Lieutenant Donald Patterson Demarest [i.e., Duncan] of the 141st Field Artillery, U.S.N.A., which was celebrated on Sunday, May 12 at 11 o'clock at the home of Mrs. and Mrs. Avery on the Island, claimed unusual social interest throughout the state and in the East, Philadelphia, Washington and other points where the family is well-known
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Miss Avery is the youngest of three exceedingly attractive sisters and owing to the war has never been formally introduced as a dbutante. Her two sisters, Misses Sara and Katherine Avery were debutantes in New Orleans, very popular and greatly feted and admired. Lieutenant Duncan is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Duncan, of New Orleans and both families are prominent and widely known.
The ceremony took place on the large porch of the family home. . . . Rev. Dr. Diggs of the Episcopal church in New Iberia performed the ceremony.
Miss Avery had as her attendants, her younger sister, Miss Louise Avery, as maid of honor, Mrs. Arnott Duncan, as matron of honor and Misses Katherine Avery and Rosemary McIlhenny were bridesmaids. The flower girls were Miss LeBourgeois, Miss Margaret Avery, Miss Mary Louise Caffery and Miss Bethia Caffery. . . . Lieutenant Duncan had as his best man his brother, Mr. Brooke Duncan.
[Extensive descriptions of dresses & flowers omitted.]
Lieutenant and Mrs. Duncan are spending a short while in New Orleans at the home of Mrs. William Preston Johnston before going to Alexandria, where Lieutenant Duncan is stationed at Camp Beauregard.
Among the out-of-town guests for the wedding were Dr. and Mrs. Arnott Duncan, Miss Rosemary McIlhenny, who attends school in New Orleans, Mr. and Mrs J. G. Duncan, Mrs. William Preston Johnston, Mr. Charles Payne Fenner, Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Howard, Miss Marie Louise Caffery, Mrs. Newton Buckner, Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Duncan and Miss Betha Caffery.
[NOTE: The typo of "Demarest" for "Duncan" in the first line probably was caused by confusion with another item farther down the page about Lieut. Donald Demarest, a completely different person.]
