Weddings in History
Paul Revere
1757 American revolution patriot Paul Revere (22) weds Sarah Orne in Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Herman Melville
1847 Author of Moby-Dick, American novelist Herman Melville (28) marries Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Stonewall Jackson
1853 Confederate general Thomas Jackson (29) weds Elinor Junkin in Lexington
Jorge Luis Borges
1967 Writer Jorge Luis Borges (67) weds old friend Elsa Astete Millán
- 2006 Former Miss Ireland Andrea Roche (30) weds PJ Mansfield at Church of The Nativity of the Blessed Mary in Saggart Village, Dublin