Our member Sherry Nitschky sent the following article to me and I would like to share it with our many members researching the same families. Holden, Missouri newspaper August 28, 1913 Nay-Fortney Mrs. and Mrs. Jas H. Nay were married in Holden 36 years ago on August 27, 1877. Esquire W. C. Smith performing the ceremony. Wm. Steele and Wm. Bridendolph being the witnesses. Mr. Postmaster Nay knew his wife, Miss Dona Martha M.D.L.V. Fortney, back in West Virginia from childhood. After the ceremony the happy couple left about 9 o'clock at night for Capt. Peaks, in Centerview Township, but owing to the lateness of the hour, stopped at R. B. Graham's. Jim was so flustrated he is not right certain where he stopped. Mr. Steele said it was customary to "stand up" at a wedding, but he remembers that he was sitting down. One thing certain, Jim and his good wife survived and are now grand-parents several times over. This James Henson Nay, Jr. is the son of James Henson Nay, SR and Abigail Ashcraft. Dona Fortney is the daughter of George W. Fortney and Catherine Mathis/Mathews. George W. Fortney and his brother Seth Fortney married Mathis/Mathews sisters Catherine and Mariah Cordelia and lived in Holden, Johnson County, MO. The children of James Henson Nay, Jr. and Dona Fortney Nay were: Hubert D. Nay Hugh P. Nay Earnest L. Nay Ethel A. Nay James G. Nay Willard Sheldon Nay Millard S. Nay Leon D. Nay Francis Bertram Nay Sherry could tell you Nay researchers more about it as she attended the first Nay reunion this year in CO and there will be a new book on the Nay family coming out. A Harry Nay is doing the book. Her e-mail address is yeoldentimes@aol.com Thanks Sherry for sharing this information. Ruby Casto