The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-14
Married in Midstream.

Intelligence has been received of
marriage which recently took place un-
der the most thrilling and extraordinary
circumstances ever known in Virginia.
It seems that for some months past Mr.
Reed, a young planter has been in love
with Miss Carrie Shoup. a beautiful and
petite blonde, aged only sixteen, the
daughter of the celebrated Captain j.
c. Shoup, the daring scout of the army
of Northern Virginia during the war.
The father of the young lady objected
to her suitor, who was but twenty years
old. The ardent lover. however, had
made up his mind that he would marry
the object of his affection despite the
old soldiers objection. The young
lady secretly smiled on him, and the
father, learning the state OF affairs, de-
cided to send Miss Shoup to Missouri to
stay with her relatives, hoping thereby
to break of the affair between the young
people. The lady received very COM
posedly the parental command to pack
up her trunks and get ready for . long
trip. II she wept at being severed from
her lover it was in secret. 1t was ar
ranged that she should cross the river
near Harper's Ferry and take the train
at an adjacent station. Captain Shoup
decided to let the grandfather of the
young lady accompany her to Missouri,
and, after seeing her safe in charge of
her relatives there, to return. The
three reached the banks ofthe Potomac
where they were to cross in a
large iatboat used there for
ferrying passengers. In one corner
of the boat was q sandy haired,
benevolent-looking gentleman. with a
sort of clerical-cut coat, and near him
was bundle of something rolled up in
a blanket. That bundle was Mr.. William
Reed, the lover. The grandfather got
on the boat first, and helped on the
young lady, who left her shawl on the
bank. just as the Captain was about to
follow them, she called out, Papa, ]
have left my shawl" and the father
went back to get it. The grandfather
| jumped forward, cut the cable and
called to the boatmen to heave hearty
to their oars, and they did. When the
father got to the brink of the river the
boat was fifty yards in the middle of the
stream. The blanket assumed an ami
mated appearance, and the lover jumped
up and clasped the hand of his faithful
one. Then the clerical looking gentle
man stepped forward. The oarsmeI
rested on their oars. The lovers joinet
hands while the accommodating minis
ter pronounced the twain man and wife
The infuriated father stood on the shore
and stamped his feet and wrung hi
hands in impotent rage, and as the min
ister pronounced the final blessing tn
father pronounced his final curse. Th'
grandfather looked on the ceremony a
smiling witness, and was the first II
kiss the bride.
The marriage took place with the rail
pouring down on the contracting par
ties, and the scene was beautiful AM
romantic in the extreme. Mr.. and Mrs
Reed crossed to the other side of tn
river, and later in the day returned
having first sent the grandfather owe
to conciliate the irate father. The oil
scout swore he was done with hi
daughter, but finally relented, and CAV
the blessing, "for," said he, " it is th
first time any woman or man has check
mated me-"