Failor-Grandstaff Wedding 1891

FAILOR, GRANDSTAFF, TAIT, KISSINGER, MINTON

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Date: 2/11/2012 at 09:02:28

At Hymen’s Altar.

A very happy event took place at the home of Dr. and Mrs. B. M. Failor, of this city, last Thursday afternoon, it being the marriage of their only child and daughter, Anna, to Mr. F. O. Grandstaff, of Burlington, Iowa.

The bride grew up to womanhood in Newton. She is a very charming, lovable accomplished woman and has many warm friends who consider him who has won her love a fortunate man, indeed. Miss Anna has done more probably than any other one person for Newton in a musical way.

She herself is an ardent lover and student of music of the highest grade and has become a fine performer on the piano and organ. For a number of years before leaving Newton she gave lessons to a large class in music, furnished music for most of the local entertainments and was foremost in everything that would advance the musical taste of our people.

The groom is a stranger among us but won the respect and admiration of all who met him by his fine, manly bearing and frank, cordial spirit.

The guests were about sixty-five in number and were all relatives except a very few. Grand-fathers, grand-mothers, children and grand-children were there in whole families, making it in a marked way a “family wedding.” The little folks added much to the happiness and animation of the occasion.

The house was beautifully decorated with smilax and chrysanthemums. The corner reserved for the bridal couple was made into a bower with lace curtains, festoons of smilax and a quantity of lovely, fringed, white chrysanthemums.

At about three o’clock Rev. Grenoble stepped forward, and the bridal couple preceded by the father and mother of the bride were ushered in. The ceremony was quite unique, some of its features being suggested by Miss Anna. This, however, only added to the beauty and solemnity of it.

The bride was very becomingly attired in an elegant costume of golden brown Lansdowne, made up with salmon brocade. She never looked lovelier than in her wedding robes. The groom, tall, dark, and handsome in the severe garb that custom decrees, looked the man worthy of her choice. After the congratulations a splendid dinner was served.

The presents were many and valuable, some dainty, some useful, some elegant and costly. The quantity of solid silver was a marked feature.

Mr. and Mrs. Grandstaff took the evening train for Burlington, their future home, amid showers of ride and warm wishes of friends. Among the guests from abroad were:

Samuel Failor, wife and family, Kellogg; S. H. Failor, wife and family, Grinnell; Ezra Failor, wife and two children, Des Moines; Mrs. J. L. Tait, Chicago; Elmer H. Failor and wife, Kellogg; Miss Lyday Kissinger.

Congratulations by telegraph were received from Celia Lyday, Springfield, Ohio, J. T. Minton, Burlington and others. ~ The Newton Journal, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 1891.