Hopkins Co., TX - Marriages: Ed Beck to Lonie Sparks ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: June Tuck USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** From the historical files of June E. Tuck The Echo paper article was not dated. I do know it will be dated between the 1875 and 1899. One can check the Hopkins County marriage records to get the date. In those years most all the wedding articles were done by the editor of the paper, not by family members. BECK - SPARKS Married last Wednesday at 8 p.m., Mr. Ed Beck to Miss Lonie Sparks at the residence of the brides father, Capt. J. W. Sparks, Rev. Gaddy officiating. The ceremony was sacred, pleasurable and impressive. The parents of the both the groom and bride were present shared its joys and entered into it as heartily as if repeating their own weddings. All in all it was an occasion long to be remembered and one of which the happy husband and beautiful bride can look back upon from every after condition in life, with pleasure and satisfaction. After the ceremony the invited guests partook of the wedding feast superintended by Mrs. John Lollar, with Capt. Tuck Sparks master of ceremonies. The bill of fare embraced four separate courses, and appetite affiliated with hospitality and social feature of the occasion. The feast was sumptuous, composed of edibles, rich in quality, quantity and variety and the drinks were delicious, but not intoxicating. The charming bride was the central figure of this happy event. Everything she said, done and move expressed loveliness and wifely affection. Beside her rare beauty and modest, her chief ornament was a confiding, loving expression for her lover husband. The groom and bride were happy in each other. They had the good wishes of all their friends, hence all was beautiful and appropriate, nothing wanting, everything complete. On the following day the happy couple left on their wedding tour for Galveston. The Echo wishes the happy couple and their parents who have each gained, rather than lost a child, all the success and happiness in this life, and assured and that it is in spirit and fact their very best well wishes. ---