Marriages

Eph Joel and Esther Daum/h2>

Crawfordsville Weekly Review, Jan. 5, 1885

Eph Joel and Miss Esther Daum were marr. at Peoria, Wed. last. One by one the roses fall, one by one the faded flowers drop from their parent stem to mingle their ashes with mother earth: one by one the children pass through the "muling and puking" stage and join hands and hearts, forming new ties and new families; one by one the old pass off the stage and following swiftly in their footsteps comes youth, radiant and handsome; one by one the slow years come and go and their joys their sorrows; their woes mingle with the cycles gone before; one by one we come to the verge of the cold and silent tomb and on its crumbling edge say our last farewells to weeping friends and go with Charon across the Styx; one by one the old bald headed smile defies with the mosses of centuries hanging like a curtain about their trembling limbs come to the fact of fair woman and in turn beg her smiles. Eph we congratulate you on your step; may you never regret it and you will not.

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