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Subject: HARTSOOK-CATER MARRIAGE.

Date: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 8:26 PM

Decatur County Journal

June l6, l898

At Bethel M.E. Church, on Sunday, June l2, l898, CHARLES HARTSOOK, to

MISS LIZZIE CATER. Such is the record, and yet how full of

possiblities. Ever since the CRAWFORD-CATER wedding, society in this

peaceful community, has been anticipating, prophesying, and otherwise

expecting another wedding in this immediate vicinity; and that the bride

would emerge from the same door, pass up the same path to the road,

enter a carriage, drive over the same roadway, to the same church, and

hear the words that were to unite them forever; and for once, Dame Rumor

was correct; for at high noon the bridal party, composed of MR. JAMES

DUNN and MISS EMMA ROSE CATER, the lady and gentleman of honor, followed

by the bride and groom, entered the church, and as the organ pealed

forth the notes of the wedding march, proceeded to the altar where the

solemn words were spoken by REV. EDGAR O. WELLS, which made them man and

wife, in the sight of God and man.

Immediately after the ceremony, they left the house for the home of the

father of the bride, where a bountiful repast was served, and after

this, the afternoon was passed in religious conversation.

The happy couple are to live in the home of the father of the groom, and

they are looking for a life of prosperity, as they believe in that

scripture which reads, "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having

the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come".

E.O.W.

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