JEAN POSTS

On February 7th, Edward and Margaret got married.  There had been much discussion, but Edward insisted that it be at his house.  So, we ended up having all the people we could fit in the house and the rest in the barn.  Bishop Joseph performed the marriage in the house and one of our ministers in the barn.  After Edward and Margaret got married in the house, they went out into the barn and were given congratulations.

We served the dinner in the house in shifts.  Bishop Joseph gave the blessing at the first shift.  He then ate a quick meal and had to go to someone else's house to preform a wedding there.  Poor Bishop Joseph had three weddings to perform that day.  We had invited Bishop Eli and Emma, but they couldn't come because Bishop Eli had two weddings to perform that day.

As usual, many of the women, myself included were in the kitchen getting ready for the dinner.  Shortly before their getting married, Anna and Grandmother Olive came and rushed me out.  They wanted to make sure I witnessed the marriage.  Anna stayed in the kitchen, but Grandmother Olive came with me and sat next to me - to make sure I saw the whole thing.

Two of the kind of funny or unusual things is that Edward's new barn had never been used until after the wedding.  An English neighbor had retired from farming, so Edward rented his barn while the new barn was constructed.  After the new barn went up, Edward asked the neighbor if he could rent the neighbor's farm until after he married.  The neighbor said as long as he was invited to the wedding.  Neighbor and his wife, were the first invited to the wedding.

The other thing was when Edward saw us ladies coming into his kitchen with all our pots and pans.  He kept saying not to scratch the counter, don't chip the cupboards, - on and on he went until David got him out of the kitchen and said us ladies wouldn't damage it.  After everything was over and we left, Margaret, said Edward went over that kitchen to make sure everything was all right.

The day after the wedding, we ladies got the house straightened,  while the men went over to the neighbors barn to bring all of Edward and Margaret's horses and cows to his new barn.  The neighbor agreed  to only take back of the men pictures, but people wouldn't believe him if he told them they took the animals right down the road from one farm to another.  The men saw the pictures.

Oh, I almost forgot that Edward had a picture of his grandmother in his shirt pocket.  He didn't let anyone know until after the wedding and only to family.  What got David and I a bit upset is that none of Edward's natural family came to be the wedding.  A couple of days later we mentioned it to Edward and Margaret, and Edward said that we are his family.  They left, he prays for them, but our family is his family.  He even has an adoption paper that says so.  It brought us to tears.

Margaret said she was so happy.  Now that she and Edward are married, she is really a member of our family.  The only family that she has really known.

Michael said, he might be next.

Be With God,
Jean