The Atlanta Constitution of April 9, 1906, carried this story of romance from Athens, Georgia that involved a Schenectady girl with big brown eyes.
“News has just reached Athens of the marriage of Thomas R. King, formerly of this city, and Miss Theresa Cotie, of Schenectady, N.Y., the marriage having been solemnized the first of January, and having been kept a secret until a few days since.
“There was a bit of romance in this wedding, which will be of interest to Mr. King’s many friends in Georgia. Mr. King, who is a son of Mr. and Mrs. James S. King, of this city, after being graduated at the University of Georgia a few years since, went to Schenectady and engaged in electrical work in that city, rapidly rising to a position of trust and responsibility.
“Less than a year since he was standing on a street in Schenectady and noticed a young lady standing on a street car track as the trolley car was rapidly bearing down upon her. She seemed to be unconscious of any danger, and Mr. King quickly sprang to her rescue, snatching her off the track just in time to save her life.
“She bowed her thanks and passed on. The young man wrote his parents of the incident and laughingly told of how she shot a look at him with her brown eyes that he still remembered.
“Well, those brown eyes lingered in his memory long enough to cause him to renew his acquaintance and on January 1 they were made man and wife.”
Theresa was born in Moriah, Essex County, in 1886. Thanks to the miracle of the world wide web, we can see the big brown eyes of Theresa Cotie King today:
