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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert May 7, 2005 iggy29@rnetinc.net