Saturday, August 3, 2024

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, September 9, 1862

The Bellair Company came to town & will quarter here until we are all into Rendisvouse 6 Oc I got Marriage License for Samuel Bunker of Ill & Miss Susan I Porter & at ½ past 6 Oc I & my Daughter started in my buggy at 8 Oc we arrived at her house some 8 miles south of town 4 past 8 Oc I married them a house full of persons were there we had a splendid time at 2 Oc we got home

SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 89

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