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Subject: LONG-LANEY MARRIAGE.

Date: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 9:33 PM

Decatur County Journal

June 30, l898

Married, Wednesday evening, June 22, l898, at the home of the bride in

Decatur Township, by REV. G.D. GURLEY, MR. JAMES W. LONG to MISS EMMA

LANEY.

MR. LONG is a worthy young man from our neighboring county of Ringgold

and clerks in a store at Tingley. MISS LANEY, whom he has the good

fortune to win as his bride, has been one of our most successful

teachers, having taught fourteen terms, and seven of these consecutively

in one district. She graduated from the Leon High School in the class

of '98 and later from the Normal Institute.

Among those present at the ceremony were the following: MR. and MRS.

G.C. ARTHUR, Deland, Ill.; MR. and MRS. L.T. LONG, Ellston, Iowa; MR.

and MRS. A. ERVIN, Kellerton, Iowa; MR. HENRY LEMON, Farragut, Iowa;

MESSRS. and MESDAMES J. FISHER, J.D. BROWN, S.W. ROBBINS, C.R. RILEY,

MISS ANNA ROBBINS, MR. S.W. SEARS, MRS. ART MARTINDALE, all of Decatur

County.

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