Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-04-13
A PIONEER WEDDING,
New such Fostivisiea We're Corr
Quoted In oIdsu Times.
The Wedding Ceremony ana Feast
as They We're sevcnty-Five
Years Ago,


with his great grandchildren who wore
especially fond Of listening to hia stories
Of life in his younger days. Tho other
evening they gathered around him,
with ourly-headed Polly in his lap, who
Begged for q story of a wedding in the
oldon timos. The old mans eyes twin
killed. q bit, and he seemed TO DO fishing
In his memory for something laid aside
COR futnrs use. Finally he atrRightened
ap.
"woii, Polly said hc, "I reckon
Fourl heV 10 hov it. Th' firnt weddln'
ever saw-t least the first one I'm sure
I ever CANVAS whom my oldest sister,
dane, got married to Dick Ballou. They
wasn't no flub-dubs bout thet woddin',
Folly, but IL wuz jest straight out 'nout
business from the Hrst Everybody In
the whole neighborhood knowed all
about 1t long fore 1t come oil, fer jamie
N Dick wus mighty poplar in them
parts, IA everybody was willin'.
IN them dayS, Polly, they didn't hov no
alcS new cards sont roun'; they wuEn't
Ea post-oflics 10 send 'em. Whenever
they wuE to be emmy invitin' q small
hoJ'd 30 put on bareback horse, n he'd
Plde all roun' tn neigbborhood deliver
iu' messages like this, loud's he could
llor. Say, they's to bo quiltin', Cr
e voddin', or anything whatever IL
WuEL down TO ole man Jones mex
Cbswuday night, N they want all your
folks ter comet That wuE all, n then
he'd ride off like mad = th' next house.
N every body como, too; no holdin'
back fer ioar O. not hayin' beon Invited
IN light way. Mnrryin' wuzn't dono eZ
easy ~ lis now, neither. Every body
hod to git married by preaoher-cir-
auit-rider they wuz called-'n preachers
wuK few an mighty fur between; didn't
get 'roun sometimes moron once n
sbree months, n 80 tn boys IA gir9 he'd
" make calculation bout poppin' tn
question n windin' up thoir courtin'
Eo'a 70 be Oh time, cause 'twould be =
long time RtWeen chances.
"Weils wuz tellin' ye, Dick N JEno
Wus 8 git married n 80 they got n
bouSe built-didn't take more'n two
days o put up q log house 's goods on
pybody =lhe's n the way they did
sook!n' W fathers house wuz a caution.
They he'd wild turkeys, N venison, n
bar Iuout, roasted N slowed n baked, n
shieAan,, n honey n potatoes IN
"Didn't thoy have no caksH"
"Caksl Oh, yes; what they called
Nho.-c MADE o. wheat flour N mixed
up 18th lard n rolled out dat n then
crosses put on 1t bout two Inches apart
"a then put in Dutch oven n -"
"Hub, Rrsndpsi 1 guess that wasn't
Unuch Y cake, 'thout no sugari Didn't
shsy nave no ice-croam, noither?"
"Polly." said the old man, solompiy,
n never SEQ no ico-oroam till / wuR 70
ald y your father"
The little girl opened her eyes very
wide at this evidence OF the hardshipa
her sreat-gran dparent encountered in
bis youth and reached up and patted
y m softly on tho cheek in token OF COM
Elissration.
"Thsy wuz aluH lowin' 70 hsv . good
dime to weddin', Polly, n made big
preparations. They wu8 people from
forty milo away took all day 10 got to
1Gther'S house, n they'd put up q snack
tor dinner on th' way. Couras they
como th' day Afors and had TO stay all
nighti so when th' house got nlled up
ths men just went to tn big double log
hArn n slept on th' hay. Frolics wuE
scarce IL em days, N when We had one
Wo held on 70 1t So tn folks what
same so fur staid four n Ave days. Us
boys thought 1t wuE lots o. fun TO sleop
cot n the barn, long 18th tn visitors.
"Well, mex day the preacher got there
SSt nv folks 'st came 18th him got along.
When thoyh bout mile from tn house
tksy had what wua called IN run fer th'
h0ttle. Two young fellers . horseback
'sus picked on, N whom thoy wus- bout
D mile from tn house they left th' rest
"a ran race fer tho house q see who'd
kSAL Th' road wuA awful rough, up
Slll n down u oross hollsrs N full % big
stpnes n Logs n all that But th' more
10 tn way tn bottsr-it'd show who wuA
W best horseman. They jist come full
AlL now, tell ye, soon's one fsller Civ
a. signal with n LnJin whoop, n made
Lsighty good nmo, N one teller boat jseb
Nv bout four feet Th bottle was q
Whisky -aask full, n wua ready a. th'
IN one \ got II took S6 his hat "a
drunk 70 JAMIE, n then went soAlly
hortin' back 10 tn party what was
Somin'. He passed Il TO Dick n then to
sh' rest Nv 'em, n all took o taste, "A
wHEzent ashamed nv 1t, nuther, fer twuH
honest liquor, n they Wuzn't no Pro-
hibitionists them days. All but ttl' one
"Whon they got there n got settled
1ick n jamie stood up Sfors th'
preacher n WuH married, bout like
folks u nowadays. Th' young folks
wEEn't wearin' tn hnerisa they do now.
All homospun their oloso wux, every
pLitoh. But th0y wuz ez good lookin' es
snny body you can find bout here. Tall
AoAAhhy hAppy tney
both wuz, N they loved one another n
hS mistake. Diok wuE stronger n
bear, n usod TO say he could whip his
weight In wild oats, n dc b'lisvs he
1suld done it. But that day he wus en-
Eonder O. jamie q IL she wus ohany
baby, N ho'd break 1t y he wuzn't al
mighty careful. N no watched her like
Rhs wus the very apple o. his eye. jamie,
the wuz 30 bright, n smilin', N blushin'
ike apple blossom, N so tender
Ike that svory young feller
;hers fell in love with her
Grst sight, n wished he wus in Dicks
Rhoss. Then they all set down to din
aer, 'smany's could fnd places N th'
table, which wuz big one, N covered
7sh all the ylttles / told ye about, N it
vol, folks them days he'd appetites N
20 dyspepsia, N l reckon one or two nv
Sena would make right smart famine
u short time II they'd set down to one
q these here fine dinners bout town.
Ehe' ones that couldn't find room at tn
table set round out doors n told Jokes
"a nursed their appotites till th' frat
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