Ionia County MI Archives Marriages.....Steele, Phebe  - Dexter, John C. 1842
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The Grand Rapids Enquirer Friday, September 23, 1842
The Grand Rapids Enquirer
Friday, September 23, 1842 

MARRIED.
In Ionia, on the 13th inst., by the same [Rev. H. D. Buttolph], Mr John C.
Dexter to Miss Phebe Steele, all of Ionia.
The following ceremony, which we think was rather "cute," was used upon the
occasion, and we give it for the edification of the brethren of the cloth:
I.
If each of you with heart sincere,
Do pledge to love, to serve, and fear;
In sickness, health, in want or wealth,
Unite to live as one till death.
II.
If from all others you decide,
Who court your love you'l turn aside,
Then join your hands, that you may be
Who're two but one; by God's decree.
III.
Hearts joined and hands, if witness be
'Tis all that's claimed by Man's decree
Be Husband, Wife, till life shall end
With heavens smiles the same to attend.


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