sheesh, i love these........barely concealed insults, innuendos and slurs......wish we could get away with stuff like that today....."have them married"........mac ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancee Seifert" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 3:47 PM Subject: [IADECATU] PRATT -- SHINN MARRIAGE > The Journal > Leon, Iowa > August 30, 1883 > > MARRIED -- At the M.E. Parsonage in Leon, A.A. PRATT and Miss LEONA SHINN, > both of Ord, Nebraska. > > A romance is connected with the above marriage. It was a runaway match, > the > bride being a cousin of MITCHELL, Esq., of Osceola, who received a > dispatch > to have them married. The bride is quite pretty and intelligent; the > groom > not so much........ > ---------------------------------------------------- > Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert > January 7, 2010 > [email protected] > > www.iagenweb.org/decatur > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Someone in the bride's family must have written that..... :-) BTW....I always read all of the posts (at some point) and found some of my folks of the Wheelis Cemetery list and it was new information for me...thanks so much! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ronald M McClure Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 2:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IADECATU] PRATT -- SHINN MARRIAGE sheesh, i love these........barely concealed insults, innuendos and slurs......wish we could get away with stuff like that today....."have them married"........mac ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancee Seifert" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 3:47 PM Subject: [IADECATU] PRATT -- SHINN MARRIAGE > The Journal > Leon, Iowa > August 30, 1883 > > MARRIED -- At the M.E. Parsonage in Leon, A.A. PRATT and Miss LEONA SHINN, > both of Ord, Nebraska. > > A romance is connected with the above marriage. It was a runaway match, > the > bride being a cousin of MITCHELL, Esq., of Osceola, who received a > dispatch > to have them married. The bride is quite pretty and intelligent; the > groom > not so much........ > ---------------------------------------------------- > Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert > January 7, 2010 > [email protected] > > www.iagenweb.org/decatur > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > www.iagenweb.org/decatur ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message