Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Thursday, February 8, l900

MR. EUGENE MASSEY and MISS ETHEL SYLVESTER were united in marriage Wednesday evening at 6:30 o'clock at the home of the bride's parents MR. and MRS. J.F. SYLVESTER, near Woodland, the ceremony being performed by Rev. Pond, of Lucas, Iowa, Pastor of the Christian Union Church at that place.

About twenty of their relatives and intimate friends witnessed the ceremony and after congratulations were extended the guests sat down to an elegant wedding repast.

The groom is one of our most popular and respected young men and one of Decatur County's most successful school teachers.

His bride has been a resident of this vicinity all her life and graduated from the Allerton High School in '98 and has made a large circle of friends by her loving qualities. Her husband may well feel proud of having won her heart and hand.

MR. and MRS. MASSEY will go to housekeeping on the W.H. Wilson farm west of Woodland which he had purchased a few days before the wedding. We predict for them much happiness and prosperity.

Copied by Nancee (McMurtrey) Seifert
"With permission from the Leon Journal Reporter"
December l9, 2002