The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-08
Sleepy Eye Girl
Marries Oil King
Miss Bessie Brown Married To Texas
Millionaire At Pierre, S. D.,
Tuesday
SERVICE IS PERFORMED IN CAR
Ceremony Is Climax of Romance Be.
gun Fifteen Years AgO-COuple
Will Live In Texas

An interesting ceremony took place
Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 in a big
Oakland touring car in front of the
main entrance of the state capitol, at
Pierre, S. D., when Miss Bessie Bulah
Brown, of Sleepy Eye, Mimi, was
married to Mr.. Ward J. Sheldon, of
Electra, Texas, the Rev. Wilkinson of
the Methodist Episcopal church of
Pierre officiating. Those who wit
messed the ceremony besides the par
ents and sisters of the groom were
Mr.. and Mrs. Summerside and family
of this city who entertained the party
Tuesday, and C. E. Besancon of Blunt,
boyhood friend of the groom.
Mr.. Sheldon, in company with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs P. G. Sheldon of
Gentry, Ark, his two sisters, Mrs. Roy
Carpenter, of Gentry, Ark, and Mrs.
Gary of Electra, Texas, his fancee,
Miss Bessie Brown, of Sleepy Eye,
Mimi, and the driver, Foster Reynolds,
of Electra, Texas, are on trip from
their homes to the Yellowstone Park
They have made brief stops along the
route, visiting friends atvarious points,
the longest stay being at Harold,
which was the home of the Sheldon
family from 1883 until about ten years
ago. Their longresidencei in the county
made the wedding of Tuesday an
event of interest to hundreds of
! friends.
Romance A Long One
The touch of romance with which
every courtsflip and marriage is saw
ored is heightened in this case by cir
cumstances which make the event one
of particular interest. The attach
ment of the two was formed over ten
years ago. About that time Mr..
Sheldon went to Texas and became
interested in development enterprises.
His fiancee, northern girl and as an
only child, in choice between love
and duty remained with her parents
in the north. In the meantime the
groom, after experiencing the set
backs and failures that confront pro-
motors and developers in untried
fields, finally uncovered the great oil
fields of northern Texas, about three
years ago, and his position was
changed from that of a struggling
young man to that of an affluent oil
magnate, with sixteen producing wells
working for him night and day and
with hundreds of acres of proven
fields yet to be developed. Deciding
to take a rest from his work, Mr..
Sheldon took his parents and sisters
upon this tour, his fiancee joining the
party enroute.
After their daughter had left the
home with the party, the parents of
the young lady undoubtedly became
reconciled to the estrangement or
considered that the patience and stead
fastness of the young people should be
rewarded, for they forwarded their
consent to the union. The word was
received as the party was approaching
the old home of the groom in this coun-
ty, and nothing was more natural that
they should at once act upon the con-
sent by having the ceremony per-
formed amid the scenes of the groom's
boyhood days, and that it should take
place in the car which is their tempo
rary home on a tour that has devel-
oped into honeymoon.
The bride, Miss Bessie Bulah Brown.
is the only daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
c. A. Brown of Sleepy Eye, Mimi. Mr..
Brown is one of the oldest conductors
in the service of the C. &. N. w. in the
northwest, and his charming daughter
is a young lady of rare graces and ac-
complishments, well qualified to pre-
side in the home which the groom will
be pleased to provide.
Groom Most Successful
Those who were acquainted with the
groom during his fifteen years resi-
dence in the county knew him as a
most ikable fellow with the initiative
and independence to hew his way in
the world. The success which he has
attained, in which pluck and foresight
have figured more largely than luck,