From: "Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert" To: Subject: MATRIMONIAL - BEVANS & PIERCY. Date: Friday, August 24, 2001 8:37 PM Decatur County Journal June l5, l905 June l0th, at the bride's mother, MRS. A.A. PIERCY, at Tuskeego, occurred the marriage of her daughter, LAURA EDITH, to MR. HENRY S.F. BEVANS, of Haigler, Neb. Promptly at 6 o'clock, to the strains of the wedding march played by MISS GAIL BALLINGER, the happy couple accompanied by the bride's cousins, MR. C. MAHORNEY and sister, entered the parlor where Rev. H. Stringham performed the ceremony. The bride was very becomingly attired in a dainty white Swiss gown, the groom in the conventional black. The company then repaired to the dining room where refreshments were served, both delicious and abundant. Many useful and beautiful gifts were received. The highly respected and popular young couple leave this week for Haigler, Neb., where MR. BEVANS is employed as operator on the B. & M. Railroad. Their many friends join in wishing them a prosperous and happy future. The out of town guests were: Mrs. Dye, mother of the groom, of Grant City, Mo., Miss Effa Mahorney, of Cayuga, Ind., Miss Bessie Fosdick, of Milo, H. Reed of Davis City, L. Gates, H. Gates and family and Miss Louie Pickering of Leon, Miss Etta Ennis of Osceola, Neb. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In another column of the same date: MARRIAGE LICENSES: H.S.F. Bevans, Haigler, Neb. . 22 Laura Etta Piercy, Tuskeego. . 22 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert August 24, 200l (Laura's middle name are given both as Edith and Etta.?) ==== IADECATU Mailing List ==== Nancee, iggy29@scican.net; List Administrator Carla Rae, wrlcrpl@grm.net; Coordinator Decatur County IA Genweb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu ============================== Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp Search over 2500 databases with one easy query!