Shafer-Lines Wedding

SHAFER LINES

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 4/7/2005 at 20:41:34

New Years Wedding

The way to begin the new year right is to get married. Among the happy couples who made good resolutions along that line and kept them were Miss Clara Anna Shafer, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Henry Shafer of Benezette and Mr. Henry Charles Lines of Marble Rock. The wedding took place at the home of the brides parents and was witnessed by a large house full of relatives and friends. Rev. Knappe of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Greene pronounced the solemn words which made the two young lives united in wedlock.

Promptly at five-thirty, Wednesday evening Jan. 1, 1913, the wedding march "Tannhauser" was played by Miss Matilda Shafer, cousin of the bride and the bride and groom, accompanied by Miss Louisa Shafer, sister of the bride and Mr. Ed Lines brother of the groom marched into the beautifull decorated parlor and pledged their lives to each other. Then came the feasting.
A sumptous dinner was served to the delighted quests and merriment was rife for the whole evening. The bride wore white satin covered with lace.
Among the quests were the groom's mother, brothers and sisters of Marble Rock, the brides' uncles Adam and John Shafer and their families and the Schallock families from near Greene.

These young people are very popular and have a host of friends. They come from families of high esteem and who have been properous and successful in everyway. We congratulate these young people and hope life will be crowded with
good things for them.

They will live with his mother in Marble Rock for a couple of months and then begin farming on the old Stockwell farm near Green which was purchased recently by the bride's father.