Craighead Co, AR - Penix Marriage

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Sumitted by: Doris T. Thurman
	     17 Feb 2001
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Craighead County Sun Newspaper--Sunday, November, 1890
Penix Marriage Story

ANOTHER LAUNCHING ON THE SEA OF MATRIMONY
Submitted by the late Mrs. Doris T. Thurman
From the Craighead County Sun, November, 1890:

The Appeal-Avalanche of Memphis last Wednesday had the following 
interesting news of Craighead County, Arkansas, folks in its columns.

"Mr. W.R. Penix, Miss Ellie Anderson, Rev. M.M. Smith, Messrs. A.M. Love 
and O.W. Anderson, all of Jonesboro, Arkansas, and vicinity, arrived in this 
city yesterday morning and registered at Gaston's. Pretty soon, an envoy 
extraordinary was sent on a mission to the Courthouse. He returned in a 
short time with a certain document, the contents of which he guarded with 
jealous secrecy. After the return of the envoy No.1, another gentlemen, who 
had also been sent out on a very mysterious mission, 
returned with a gentlemen of the cloth. In a few moments, Mr. William R. 
Penix and Miss Ella Anderson stood up and were pronounced man and wife. Mr. 
and Mrs. Penix were heartily congratulated by their friends after the 
ceremony.
The groom is a young business man in Bono, Arkansas, and the bride is a 
highly cultivated young lady of the same city.
It was not a runaway match at all, but the groom stated that he knew of 
no other city in the world better to be married in than in Memphis, 
Tennessee, and hence he made the trip.
The writer was mistaken as to the mission of the envoy of the No. 2,[for 
the] gentleman of the cloth essential to the consummation was [a member] of 
the party and none other than the Presiding Elder, M.M. Smith of Jonesboro 
District. They returned on Wednesday night, and ere this have received the 
blessings of the old folks and the congratulations of their friends. The Sun 
desires to add its mite in the latter particular and hopes that their future 
be crowned with prosperity and pleasures, and that their troubles may be 
little ones.

[Editor's Note: Both William Roy Penix, Sr., and Susan Ellen Anderson were 
natives of Craighead County, having been born in the Big Creek area in 1861 
and 1867, respectively. The were lifelong members of the Methodist Church, 
and one of their grandchildren is C.C.H. S. member Bill Penix.]