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The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, January 28, 1909
The writer ran onto PERRY NORRIS, Monday morning, right in the act of
securing a marriage license, having arrived from Guide Rock, Nebraska, the
day before on his nuptial mission. The lady in the case was MRS. MELISSA
GILBERT, of Washington Township, and the marriage took place on Tuesday at
the bride's home in the old Greenville neighborhood.
This reads almost like a romance. In the now long, long ago -- in the
ante-bellum days, they were young people of the same neighborhood, school
mates at the old log school house and often went to meetin' together when
the circuit rider held forth in the pioneer forum -- and thought each other
pretty nice -- so it is said. MELISSA STEINBARGER was sweet sixteen, lithe
and happy; PERRY was a youth of sturdy habits, bashful and good -- and it
was in the old Greenville neighborhood that they formed a friendship as
enduring as time, now by the changes of fate to be welded to that closer
relationship prescribed by holy writ.
One day the scene was o'er cast by a great black cloud rolling up from the
south and a thunder clap broke the serenity of this youthful existence and
the joyous sunshine was obscured.
PERRY heard the call and enlisted, serving through the conflict and when he
returned he was no longer a boy -- afterward he drifted west. Both took on
themselves marital vows and reared families.
But for ten years he has been a widower; she a widow.
Thus the sequel and marriage on Tuesday. The Leader joins their host of
friends in congratulations and well wishes and while they year by year
approach the sunset realm together, they are no longer youthful, may their
hearts remain young and the causeways profusely strewn with roses and living
joys.
They will reside at Guide Rock, Nebraska.
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