From the Chastain Scrapbook:

MARRIED--By Rev. J. M. Innskeep at Garden Grove on Sunday last, Mr. W. R. Smith and Miss Emma Vaughn, both of this place.

We attended the wedding supper of this couple, given by Mrs. Lucy Bradfield, sister to the bride, and we were so overwhelmed with the pleasantness of the occasion and with the immense amount of good things we there found to eat, that we have since scarcely had mind enough of our own to copy a verse from Old Hundred or sing a psalm in honor of the passage of a fellow being from the dull and unpoetic precincts of bachelorhood to the bright sunny fields and flowery plains of married life. The fact is we came very near eating too much, and doubtless would have done so were it not that we are naturally very modest and temperate, you know. Billy Smith has been one among us for several years and is well known to all our citizens as a quiet and studious young man, and now, after having accumulated some of the worlds goods with which to begin life, he wisely concluded to take unto himself a helpmate, and he has found a very suitable and worthy one in Miss Emma, who is one of Leon's best girls. This noble couple, we think are amply matched, and as they start out on life's journey in their new capacity of married life, we think we see success and prosperity before them. May they accomplish every laudable undertaking, and success meet them continually.

Copied by Judy Chastain
February 22, 2003