Gray - Pugh

GRAY, PUGH

Posted By: Ann Jaber (email)
Date: 2/20/2006 at 01:07:38

MISS HAZEL GRAY AND FLOYD PUGH MARRIED SATURDAY

Pilot Knob State Park, at Forest City, formed the setting for the wedding of Miss Hazel Gray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Gray, of Toledo, and Mr. Floyd A. Pugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Amos B. Pugh, living west of Toledo, at 1:00 o’colock last Saturday afternoon, June 18.

The Forest City Summit contained the following article regarding the wedding:

“Saturday, June 18, 1927, there happened to be visiting at the H. L. Taylor home near Pilot Knob, a nephew, of Toledo, Iowa. He had quietly slipped away from his home and friends and accompanied by his bride-to-be arrived at the park. These young people intended to keep the road as far as Albert Lea, where they planned to be married. But they had reckoned without his Uncle. He began to unfold the marvelous beauties and glories of the highest spot in Iowa which he guards with jealous care, and soon he had those young people so fascinated with his description that they wanted to get married then and there among the trees and the wild flowers. Mr. Taylor accompanied them to the county seat where the necessary document was obtained and at 1 o’clock the wedding party found its way to the top of Pilot Knob. Near the flagpole at an arch made of native trees and ornamented with two American Flags, Miss Hazel Gray, the bride, and Floyd Pugh, the bridegroom, took their places attended by six campfire girls, Thelma and Oagot Skrivseth, Ilo and Phyllis Conner, Ruth Hanson and Violet Taylor. All attendants carried bouquets of wild flowers, the brides bouquet was composed of wild roses, spider wort and wild peas with a background of wild grass. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Thovson were witnesses. Custodian and Mrs. Taylor and son, Arthur, completed the list of guests. Rev. Corwin Taylor of Forest City, officiated, using the ring ceremony. Someone suggested that everything worked out in perfect harmony on this delightful occasion because it was a Taylor made wedding.”

Mrs. Pugh has lived in Toledo during the last fifteen years, having come here form Natchez, Washington. She attended the local schools and graduated form high school with the class of 1922, since which time she has been teaching in the rural schools of the county.

Mr. Pugh lives with his parents three miles west of Toledo. He attended the rural schools and has been farming with his father. Mr. and Mrs. Pugh will live at the parental Pugh home.

Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Pugh drove into Minnesota, returned to West Bend for a brief visit, and visited at Decorah before returning to Toledo last Wednesday night.

(Original in the scrapbook of Fannie Razey Gray.)