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    1. WEDDING OF LEE GOYNE AND ETTA HEARD
    2. Ruth Stout
    3. I was recently in Ruston, LA at the library at LA Tech University reading microfilm copies of the Farmerville Gazette from 1894 and came across a description of the wedding of the above two people. The write-up is from the Gazette of Wednesday, May 23, 1894. If any of the people in the wedding party are your ancestors, I will be glad to make copies and send to you if you will send me your snail mail address. Excerpts from the article are (I have capitalized the names of wedding party memebers so that they are easy to see): "At the Baptist church of our sister town, Shiloh, in the presence of a large concourse of friends and relatives of the contractions parties, the nuptials of MR. LEE GOYNE and MISS ETTA HEARD were celebrated last Sunday morning. Prompty at ten o-clock MISS ETHEL ROBINSON rendered the sweet strains of thte wedding march .....................MISSES GENIE STERLING and MATTIE LOU MOORE, bridesmaids, looking beautiful in immaculate white...............DR. J. G. TAYLOR and MR. YOUNG FULLER groomsmen...............Two beautiful little flower girls JENNIE PREAUS and RUTH FULLER walked immediately before the betrother pair, strewing their path with roses. Lastly came the bride and groom and took their place beneath a large and handsome wedding bell of roses and evergreens, before Hymen's altar where REV. J. V. B. WALDROP, of Spearsville...................After receving the congratulations of their friends, the happy husband and wife, accompanied by a few especial friends, drove over to Farmerville where MR. AND MRS. W. J. TURNAGE served an elegant wedding dinner. The bride if the daughter of MR. AND MRS. T. A. HEARD, one of Shiloh's most prominent families and is admired by all for hre culture, grace and beauty and is an ornament and jewel to any circle in which she may be thrown. Robed in an exquisite costume of pearl gray silk, trimmed in lace and orange blossoms, she looked the fairest of the fair.........................The groom is well known throughout the parish as a gentleman of high standing and courteous manners and is to be congratulated in winning the hand of such a queenly bride." Ruth Stout

    04/20/1999 12:54:59