MARRIED – On Sunday 2nd instant in Halifax by Rev. A.S. SMITH at the Southern Hotel, Mr. Frank W. SOUTHALL to Miss Eudora W. RAINES of Sussex county, Va.  The pair arrived in Halifax on Sunday but on being informed that they could not get license on that day, waited until 12:30 o’clock at night and were married.  The Register of Deeds and Mr. SMITH kindly waited with them until Sunday had passed.

Source: Roanoke News, 13 February 1879, page 3. Available online at DigitalNC.org.