Newton County GaArchives Marriages.....Elliott, Miss Martha L. - Davis, John R.  October 7, 1883
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The Georgia Enterprise, October 12, 1883
Marriage of “Uncle” John R. Davis

“Tis well to woo, tis well to wed.
For so the world hath done,
Since myrtle grew and ivy blew
And morning brought the sun.”
     
     On Sunday night last, at the residence of G. A. BERGREN, in this city, Mr. 
JOHN R. DAVIS was united in the bonds of wedlock to Miss MARTHA ELLIOTT. Rev. 
W. F. ROBISON, officiated. All of Newton County.
     There was a tinge of romance attached to the marriage that made it 
peculiarly interesting, as the groom is near sixty years of age, while the 
bride is only a few years younger, and neither had ever been married. The 
couple had never met to know each other until the afternoon before the night of 
the marriage. We must congratulate Uncle John, for he has secured an 
industrious, Christian woman for a companion, and one who will love and cheer 
him up in his declining years. For forty years or more the fires of affection 
have remained enkindled in his breast, and during this long and tedious time he 
never so much as called upon a lady. NO doubt in the secret chambers of his 
heart the hopes, aspirations and bright dreams of his young manhood have 
returned in all their force and power to bless himself and wife on their 
tiresome journey form the bridal to the tomb. Perhaps he feels toward his bride 
as did the poet who sang:
“Other days than these shall come,
Days that may be dreary!
Other hours shall greet us yet,
Hours that may be weary!
Still this heart shall be thy home,
Still this breast shall be thy pillow,
Still those lips shall meet thine.
As oft as billow meeteth billow.”
     Some may regard the marriage of aged persons in the light of levity. Not 
so with us. The man who has never tasted the sweets of wedded bill know none of 
the true joys of this life, and the human heart that has grown cold and 
indifferent by age and experience to the soothing influence of affection’s 
tender touch has been a curse instead of a blessing to the land which gave him 
birth. It has been said that woman, “God’s first, last and best gift to man,” 
never attains that age where she ceases to have admiration for a handsome man. 
It is told that a pilgrim wandering in the Holy Land chanced to meet a dame who 
was one hundred and sixty years old and asked the question: “At what period in 
life will a woman refuse the hand and fortune of a good-looking man?” The old 
lady’s eyes grew bright and a blush crimsoned her wrinkled cheeks as she 
replied:
“Oh, my friend, you will have to ask somebody a great deal older than I am.” 
And thus it is, and will ever be, for “Love rules the camp, the court the 
grove, and without matrimony this kind of love is but the dream of a mad man’s 
idle fancy. Again, we congratulate Uncle JOHN for his wisdom in taking unto 
himself a wife, for while his life may be in “the sere and yellow leaf,” 
the “fruits and flowers of love” are yet his own. We with for him every joy and 
blessing that life can grant or love can give.


Additional Comments:
Newton County Georgia Marriages, Books I-XI, 1822-1912
John R. Davis-----------------Martha L. Elliott--------------10-7-1883


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