Cochran-Beard Wedding 1888

COCHRAN, BEARD, WOODARD, ANDERSON, MILLER, CLIFF

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Date: 3/1/2012 at 17:32:57

Happy Wedding Bells-Many of the intimate friends of the interested parties were happily surprised by receiving the following announcement:

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cochran desire your presence at the marriage of their daughter May to I. N. Beard, Thursday evening, August 9th, 1888, at the residence of Mrs. E. Woodard, Prairie City, Iowa. Ceremony at 9 o’clock.

In response to this invitation a large number of the warm personal friends of the contracting parties gathered at the hospitable home of Mrs. Emma Woodard, sister of the bride, to witness the union of two happy hearts. Precisely at the hour of nine Prof. Beard, supporting Miss May on his right arm entered the parlors, facing a sea of smiling expectant faces. Here, awaiting their coming was Rev. J. H. Anderson, of the M. E. Church, who, in a few well-chosen and impressive words tied the mystic knot that only the hand of death can untie and that the sword of an Alexander cannot sever, closing with an earnest appeal to Providence to guide them through a long, happy and useful life. After the ceremony a social half-hour was spent and the heart-felt congratulations of those present were extended to Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Beard. Then plates were passed and a lunch of coffee cake and fruits was served that would have to be eaten to be thoroughly appreciated and no pen description can do it justice.

The presents were many, valuable and useful, and were in every instance given with the hearty good will of the donors, and in the years to come, will point the way to many Jasper County friends they leave behind them when they go to their new field of labor at Greenfield, where Mr. Beard takes charge of the schools for the coming school year, and where will follow him and his estimable wife the best wish of their hundreds of friends of this county for their complete happiness and unlimited prosperity.

Supts. Dan Miller and J. W. Cliff, accompanied by their wives, were the Newton representatives, at the Beard-Cochran wedding.

A pleasant feature of the wedding was a serenade by the Prairie City band. The band furnished beautiful music that was most thoroughly appreciated by all present. ~ The Newton (IA) Journal August 15, 1888.