From the Chastain Scrapbook:

MARRIED
At the residence of the bride's parent's, Pleasanton, Decatur County, Iowa, April 2nd, 1872 by Elder E. Banta, of Ill.; Mr. Zenas H. Gurley, to Gracie Robinson.

A good large delicious cake accompanied the above notice. Here's our hand and a hearty welcome to the "flowery fields" and "pasture's green" of matrimony. The above couple have started right, and our word for it they will go right through life. Our Satan said the cake was awful good, and the way he went for it we all thought he was in earnest. May the best gifts of life be meted out to this worthy couple, and their pathway strewn with Heaven's choicest blessings, and never a jar enter their home to mar the serenity of what their matrimonial life should, and we believe will be. Success to them.

Copied by Judy Chastain
February 22, 2003