Wellemeyer, Charles Louis

Male 1870 - 1946  (76 years)


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  • Name Wellemeyer, Charles Louis 
    Born 6 Nov 1870  Wapello Township, Louisa County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Degree 1894  Warrenton, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    A.B. 
    Address:
    Central Wesleyan College 
    Occupation 1894–1898  Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6
    professor of Latin, Greek and mathematics 
    Address:
    Charles City College 
    Education 1898–1900  Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 7, 8
    Address:
    University of Chicago 
    Occupation From 1900  Warrenton, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
    professor of Greek and Latin 
    Address:
    Central Wesleyan College 

    •      The following biographical sketch, along with a portrait, was published in 1906 in The Pulse, the yearbook of Central Wesleyan College (referred to here as C. W. C.).

           Charles Louis Wellemeyer, A. B., single, was born in a farmhouse near Wapello, Iowa in the latter half of the nineteenth century. His craving for knowledge was shown when at the age of four years, he attended the "Deestrickt" School, where his big brother wielded the "big stick." Later his parents removed to Garner, Iowa, where he did those things boys are wont to do and completed the public school at 16 years of age. He taught one year, graduated in an academy at Garner, and 1894 completed the classical course at C. W. C. Then for four years he was professor of Latin, Greek and Mathematics at Charles City College, Charles City, Iowa, for two years did post-graduate work at the University of Chicago, and in 1900 he was chosen professor of Latin and Greek at C. W. C. This position he has satisfactorily filled since then, spending the present year on leave of absence, to rest his overstrained eyes, in Dixie Land, Texas.
           Prof. Wellemeyer is a good thinker and an earnest teacher, always trying to have his pupils make progress. He avers that it is not entirely his own fault that he is not married, so we shall not judge him too harshly, for we know him to be quite a ladies' man.
    Census 1910  Warrenton, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [19
    • According to the 1910 federal enumeration, Charles, age 38, single, a college professor, was living in the home of his widowed sister, Mary W. Addicks, age 47, and her three children, Raymond, age 18, in school, Dorothy Addicks, age 15, in school, and Eunice Addicks, age 7, in school.
    Died 19 Nov 1946  Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [20, 21

    •      The following is a transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Charles Louis Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on 19 November 1946 in the Wichita Beacon (Wichita, Kansas).

      Charles Louis Wellemeyer, 849 South Fern, died at his home Tuesday morning. He was born in Wapello, Iowa 6 November 1870. Wellemeyer was a professor at Central Wesleyan College, Warrenton, Missouri, for 20 years and later a principal in rural Missouri schools. A resident of Wichita since 1927, he had been a salesman for the W. T. Raleigh Company. He was a member of the Trinity Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife, Bertha, of the home, and two sons, Lawrence Wellemeyer of the home and Lieutenant Herbert Wellemeyer of the Navy, stationed at San Francisco. Culbertson Mortuary will announce funeral arrangements.
    Person ID I281  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 2 Jun 2014 

    Father Wellemeyer, Henry Frank,   b. 15 Dec 1822, Kingdom of Hannover Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Aug 1899, Garner, Hancock County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years) 
    Mother Fiegenbaum, Christine Elisabeth,   b. 25 Oct 1827, Lengerich, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Feb 1918, Warrenton, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 90 years) 
    Residence (family) Between 1847 and 1850  Warrenton, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [22
    Married 22 Aug 1847  St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [22, 23, 24, 25, 26

    •      Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts provided the following transcription of an article which she reports appeared on 26 August 1897 in the Hancock County (Iowa) Democrat.

           Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Wellemeyer of this place celebrated the 50th anniversary of their marriage last Saturday, 21 August. A large number of relatives and friends graced the happy occasion showing their congratulations and good wishes together with more substantial tokens of their regard upon the worthy old couple. At about half-past four o'clock the guests were called in to partake of an old fashioned wedding dinner with their host and hostess. About ninety persons partook of the bounteous repast prepared. After dinner while the friends were gathered on the lawn around father and mother Wellemeyer, a short address was made by Rev. F. H. Wellemeyer, another by Mr. August Beinke of St. Louis, Missouri, which was followed by the reading of a short poem by C. L. Wellemeyer. After the short impromptu program the whole company led by the children again filed past the old people with hearty and heart felt congratulations. It was a very affective scene and one never to be forgotten. Tears flowed on every side, but they were tears of joy. When the invited guests had taken their departure, the children and grandchildren gathered in the pleasant sitting room and closed the day with songs and speeches and happy converse. All in all a most enjoyable occasion. Gifts were as follows: $50 in gold, Mr. and Mrs. Beinke; $50 in gold from the children; $2 in gold each from Rev. and Mrs. C. Schuler, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Schneider and Mr. and Mrs. John Ulrich; $1 in gold each from Mr. and Mrs. Louis Able, Mr. and Mrs. A. Schneider, Rev. and Mrs. H. R. Fiegenbaum and Rev. and Mrs. Fiegenbaum. One dozen gold coffee spoons in a handsome case from Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Lauf; two gold tablespoons from Mr. and Mrs. H. Woestman; gold crescent pin from Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Gove; chased silver cup and saucer from Mr. and Mrs. William Schneider, two gilded china cups each from Mr. and Mrs. August Grunze and Rev. and Mrs. A. Haefner; one gold salad fork from Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schroeder; bread plate from Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Wells and a dinner set in china and glass from the grandchildren.
    Residence (family) Between 1850 and 1875  Wapello Township, Louisa County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [27
    Residence (family) From 1875 to 1899  Concord Township, Hancock County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [28

    •      According to a passage from an obituary for Heinrich Frederick Wellemeyer:

      The rich and cheap lands of northern Iowa induced Mr. Wellemeyer to sell his Louisa County farm and buy several hundred acres of Hancock County prairie. On 4 December 1875 he moved with his family to this county and built their permanent home in Seymour's addition to Concord where they have since resided.
    Family ID F99  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Wengler, Bertha Anna,   b. 6 Dec 1881, Oxford, Sumner County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Jan 1959, Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years) 
    Married 22 Aug 1917  Oxford, Sumner County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [29, 30

    •      The following article announcing the marriage was published in the Warrenton Banner (Warrenton, Missouri) on Friday, 24 August 1917.

                Prof. Wellemeyer Becomes Benedict.

           Professor Charles L. Wellemeyer and Miss Bertha Anna Wengler were married Wednesday, August 22, 1917, at the home of the bride's parents at Oxford, Kan. After the wedding and a short visit with relatives at that place, the happy young couple left for Hollister, Mo., in the Ozarks, to spend their honeymoon. They will return to Warrenton in time for the opening of college the first week in September, and will be at home in the groom's handsome bungalow on College Heights.
           Prof. Wellemeyer has been the teacher of ancient languages in Central Wesleyan for some years. He is a young man of genuine Christian character, is kind and considerate, and because of this has a large number of friends. The bride was the teacher of art and domestic economy in the college the past two years, and with her pleasing disposition won many friends during her short stay here. She possesses many of the most admirable qualities of her sex, and will make her future home a happy one. The Banner joins a wide circle of friends in wishing them happiness supreme and a liberal measure of success in their journey through life.
    Children 
     1. Wellemeyer, Herbert A.
    +2. Wellemeyer, Lawrence Jonothan,   b. 17 Feb 1922, Warrenton, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. [date?]
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F1899  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 29, 74.
      Charles Louis Wellemeyer, child of Henry Frank Wellemeyer and Catherine Elisabeth Fiegenbaum, was born on 6 November 1870 at Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa.

    2. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1910. NARA microfilm T624, roll 828, image 104, page 7B.
      1910 U.S. census, population schedule; Missouri, Warren County, Elkhorn Township, Warrenton, Ward 2, Supervisor’s District 9, Enumeration District 175, census sheet 7B, enumerated on 25 April 1910; Mary W. Addicks household, dwelling 71, family 74, lines 84-88. Access through Ancestry.com in November 2010.
           In the household was: 88) Wellemeyer, Charles L.; brother; male; white; age 38; single; born in Iowa; father born in Ger[many] (German); mother born in Ger[many] (German).
           By calculation from the information provided, Charles would have been born about 1871-1872. For more details of this enumeration, see the notes on the 1910 U.S. census for this person.

    3. [S217] Book, The Pulse, 1906.
      Arthur F. Schoenig, editor in chief, (Warrenton, Missouri: the Senior Class of Central Wesleyan College; printed by Banner Publishing Company, 1906). Central Wesleyan College Archives Digital Collection, Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri). (http://digitallibrary.truman.edu/collect/cwc/index/assoc/doc00001.dir/cwc_pulse06_p14.jpg). Accessed in May 2014.
           On a unnumbered page (about page 14) of the college yearbook in a section on the faculty is a portrait and biographical sketch of Professor Charles L. Wellemeyer. "Charles Louis Wellemeyer, A. B., single, was born in a farmhouse near Wapello, Iowa in the latter half of the nineteenth century."

    4. [S217] Book, The Pulse, 1906.
      Arthur F. Schoenig, editor in chief, (Warrenton, Missouri: the Senior Class of Central Wesleyan College; printed by Banner Publishing Company, 1906). Central Wesleyan College Archives Digital Collection, Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri). (http://digitallibrary.truman.edu/collect/cwc/index/assoc/doc00001.dir/cwc_pulse06_p14.jpg). Accessed in May 2014.
           On a unnumbered page (about page 14) of the college yearbook in a section on the faculty is a portrait and biographical sketch of Professor Charles L. Wellemeyer. "He...graduated in an academy at Garner [Iowa], and 1894 completed the classical course at C. W. C. [Central Wesleyan College]"

    5. [S217] Book, The Pulse, 1907.
      J. Franklin Haas, editor in chief, (Warrenton, Missouri: the Senior Class of Central Wesleyan College; printed by Mexico Printing and Publishing Company, 1907). Central Wesleyan College Archives Digital Collection, Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri). Various pages: approximately 8, 76, 122. Accessed in May 2014.
           On a unnumbered page (about page 122) of the college yearbook in a section on alumni is an entry in the class of 1894 for "Wellemeyer, Chas. L., A. B. -- Was professor in Charles City College for four years, then did post graduate work in the University of Chicago. Is now professor of Latin and Greek in C. W. C."

    6. [S217] Book, The Pulse, 1906.
      Arthur F. Schoenig, editor in chief, (Warrenton, Missouri: the Senior Class of Central Wesleyan College; printed by Banner Publishing Company, 1906). Central Wesleyan College Archives Digital Collection, Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri). (http://digitallibrary.truman.edu/collect/cwc/index/assoc/doc00001.dir/cwc_pulse06_p14.jpg). Accessed in May 2014.
           On a unnumbered page (about page 14) of the college yearbook in a section on the faculty is a portrait and biographical sketch of Professor Charles L. Wellemeyer. "...and 1894 completed the classical course at C. W. C.  Then for four years he was professor of Latin, Greek and Mathematics at Charles City College, Charles City, Iowa,...."

    7. [S217] Book, The Pulse, 1906.
      Arthur F. Schoenig, editor in chief, (Warrenton, Missouri: the Senior Class of Central Wesleyan College; printed by Banner Publishing Company, 1906). Central Wesleyan College Archives Digital Collection, Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri). (http://digitallibrary.truman.edu/collect/cwc/index/assoc/doc00001.dir/cwc_pulse06_p14.jpg). Accessed in May 2014.
           On a unnumbered page (about page 14) of the college yearbook in a section on the faculty is a portrait and biographical sketch of Professor Charles L. Wellemeyer. "...for two years did post-graduate work at the University of Chicago, and in 1900 he was chosen professor of Latin and Greek at C. W. C."

    8. [S217] Book, The Pulse, 1908.
      Phil H. Walter, editor in chief, (Warrenton, Missouri: the Senior Class of Central Wesleyan College; printed by Banner Publishing Company, 1908). Central Wesleyan College Archives Digital Collection, Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri). Page 46 (approximately). Accessed in May 2014.
           On a unnumbered page (about page 46) of the college yearbook in a section on faculty is a portrait and a very brief biographical sketch: "Chas. L. Wellemeyer, A. B., was chosen Professor of Latin and Greek in 1900. He was graduated from C. W. C. in 1894 and later did two years' graduate work at the University of Chicago. An exhaustive course is offered in both languages."

    9. [S211] Article or notice, "Prof. Wellemeyer Becomes Benedict.".
      Warrenton Banner (Warrenton, Missouri); Friday, 24 August 1917; volume 53, number 2; page 1 column 3. State Historical Society of Missouri. (http://statehistoricalsocietyofmissouri.org/cdm/ref/collection/warrentonb/id/9967). Accessed in May 2014.
           "Prof. Wellemeyer has been the teacher of ancient languages in Central Wesleyan for some years."

    10. [S217] Book, The Pulse, 1906.
      Arthur F. Schoenig, editor in chief, (Warrenton, Missouri: the Senior Class of Central Wesleyan College; printed by Banner Publishing Company, 1906). Central Wesleyan College Archives Digital Collection, Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri). (http://digitallibrary.truman.edu/collect/cwc/index/assoc/doc00001.dir/cwc_pulse06_p14.jpg). Accessed in May 2014.
           On a unnumbered page (about page 14) of the college yearbook in a section on the faculty is a portrait and biographical sketch of Professor Charles L. Wellemeyer.

    11. [S211] Article or notice, Warrenton Banner (Warrenton, Missouri); 7 July 1905.
      volume 40, number 46; page 1, column 3 and page 1, column 5. State Historical Society of Missouri. (http://statehistoricalsocietyofmissouri.org/cdm/ref/collection/warrentonb/id/17441). Accessed in May 2014.
           "Prof. Wellemeyer, who for the past few years occupied the chair of Ancient Languages in C. W. C., left for Pecos Valley Texas, Monday night where he expects to remain for a year...he will return to take up his school room duties in 1906 and '07."

    12. [S217] Book, The Pulse, 1909.
      George Von Tungeln, editor in chief, (Warrenton, Missouri: the Senior Class of Central Wesleyan College; printed by Banner Publishing Company, 1909). Central Wesleyan College Archives Digital Collection, Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri). Page 19 (approximately). Accessed in May 2014.

    13. [S217] Book, The Pulse, 1911.
      Louis J. Duewel, editor in chief, (Warrenton, Missouri: the Senior Class of Central Wesleyan College, 1911). Central Wesleyan College Archives Digital Collection, Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri). Pages 8 & 10 (approximately). Accessed in May 2014.

    14. [S217] Book, The Pulse, 1913.
      (Warrenton, Missouri: the Senior Class of Central Wesleyan College, 1913). Central Wesleyan College Archives Digital Collection, Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri). Pages 14, 70-71 (approximately). Accessed in May 2014.

    15. [S217] Book, The Pulse, 1914.
      (Warrenton, Missouri: the Senior Class of Central Wesleyan College; printed by Banner Publishing Company, 1914). Central Wesleyan College Archives Digital Collection, Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri). Pages 21, 24, 177, 181 (approximately). Accessed in May 2014.

    16. [S217] Book, The Pulse, 1916.
      (Warrenton, Missouri: the Senior Class of Central Wesleyan College, 1916). Central Wesleyan College Archives Digital Collection, Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri). Pages 8, 19, 24 (approximately). Accessed in May 2014.
           On a unnumbered page (about page 8) of the college yearbook in a section on Officers of Administration, Charles L. Wellemeyer is listed as the Registrar.

    17. [S217] Book, The Pulse, 1919.
      (Warrenton, Missouri: the Senior Class of Central Wesleyan College, 1919). Central Wesleyan College Archives Digital Collection, Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri). Page 18 (approximately). Accessed in May 2014.

    18. [S217] Book, The Pulse, 1921.
      (Warrenton, Missouri: the Senior Class of Central Wesleyan College, 1921). Central Wesleyan College Archives Digital Collection, Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri). Page 25 (approximately). Accessed in May 2014.

    19. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1910. NARA microfilm T624, roll 828, image 104, page 7B.
      1910 U.S. census, population schedule; Missouri, Warren County, Elkhorn Township, Warrenton, Ward 2, Supervisor’s District 9, Enumeration District 175, census sheet 7B, enumerated on 25 April 1910; Mary W. Addicks household, dwelling 71, family 74, lines 84-88. Access through Ancestry.com in November 2010.
           The household consisted of: 84) Addicks, Mary W.; head; female; white; age 47; widow; mother of 5 children, 4 still living; born in Iowa; father born in Ger[many] (German); mother born in Ger[many] (German); speaks English; occupation=none; can read; can write; owns home; free of mortgage; home is a house. 85) Addicks, Raymond; son; male; white; age 18; single; born in Missouri; father born in Illinois; mother born in Iowa; speaks English; occupation=none; can read; can write; attended school since 1 September 1909. 86) Addicks, Dorothy; daughter; female; white; age 15; single; born in Missouri; father born in Illinois; mother born in Iowa; speaks English; occupation=none; can read; can write; attended school since 1 September 1909. 87) Addicks, Eunice; daughter; female; white; age 7; single; born in Missouri; father born in Illinois; mother born in Iowa; speaks English; occupation=none; can read; can write; attended school since 1 September 1909. 88) Wellemeyer, Charles L.; brother; male; white; age 38; single; born in Iowa; father born in Ger[many] (German); mother born in Ger[many] (German); speaks English; occupation=teacher, in College; employment status=w [working on own account]; not out of work on 15 April 1910; 0 weeks unemployed during 1909; can read; can write.

    20. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 29, 74.
      Charles Louis Wellemeyer died on 19 November 1946 at Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas.

    21. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 74.
      A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Charles Louis Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on 19 November 1946 in the Wichita (Kansas) Beacon.

    22. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 26-27.
      Transcription of an obituary reported to have appeared in the Garner Signal, of Garner, Iowa, on Wednesday 16 August 1899.
           Henry Frank Wellemeyer "emigrated to the United States in 1845 and settled in St. Louis, Missouri. Here he married Miss Catherine Fiegenbaum, 22 August 1847 and moved to Warrentown, Missouri where they resided for nearly three years."

    23. [S119] Harriet L. Fiegenbaum and Judith L. (Fiegenbaum) Miller, Genealogical research.
      Rev. Wellmeier and (Catherine) Christine Elisabeth Fiegenbaum; married 1905 [sic].

    24. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 24.
      Henry Frank Wellemeyer and Catherine Elisabeth Fiegenbaum were married 22 August 1847 at St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri.

    25. [S177] Ancestry.com (library edition), Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
      Original data from: Missouri Marriage Records. Jefferson City, Missouri: Missouri State Archives. Microfilm.
           Henry "Wellemeir" and Catherine Fiegenbaum were married in St. Louis, Missouri on 22 August 1847.

    26. [S113] Web site, "Julius Neumann-Amelia Catherine Wellemeyer Family Group Descendant Tree.".
      (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~drpatek/gp401.htm). D. R. Patek Family Ancestors - Rushton, Todd, Black, Neumann. 12 August 2010. Accessed 12 October 2012.
           Henry F. Wellemeyer and Katherine Elizabeth Fiegenbaum were married in 1847. No place given.

    27. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 26-27.
      Transcription of an obituary reported to have appeared in the Garner Signal, of Garner, Iowa, on Wednesday 16 August 1899.
           "Mr. and Mrs. Wellemeyer could not reconcile the institution of slavery, which then prevailed in Missouri. With their love of personal liberty, they moved to Louisa County near Wapello, Iowa, where they resided until 1875."

    28. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 26-27.
      Transcription of an obituary for "Henry Frank Wellemeyer" reported to have appeared in the Garner Signal, of Garner, Iowa, on Wednesday, 16 August 1899.

    29. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 74.
      Charles Louis Wellemeyer and Bertha Anna Wengler were married on 22 August 1917 at Warrenton, Warren County, Missouri.

    30. [S211] Article or notice, "Prof. Wellemeyer Becomes Benedict.".
      Warrenton Banner (Warrenton, Missouri); Friday, 24 August 1917; volume 53, number 2; page 1 column 3. State Historical Society of Missouri. (http://statehistoricalsocietyofmissouri.org/cdm/ref/collection/warrentonb/id/9967). Accessed in May 2014.
           "Professor Charles L. Wellemeyer and Miss Bertha Anna Wengler were married Wednesday, August 22, 1917, at the home of the bride's parents at Oxford, Kan."