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- "57th Wedding Anniversary
"It was just fifty-seven years ago today, December 23 since General William A. Compton launched his barque on the unexplored sea of matrimony and rode away with his blushing bride, a daughter of Mr. R. M. Bolen, of the then called Harmony Hollow.
"No six cylinder Packard awaited the happy couple to conduct them on flowery beds of ease, but hitched to the horse-track stood two trusty steeds.
"On horseback, the wedding trip was made to the home of the groom's father at Overall 9passing through Front Royal to show off, the general blushingly acknowledged) where the newly-weds were royally received.
"Locking [sic] back over the long vista of married happiness the General only regrets that he has not two lives to live for, says he, 'I would not change one incident, most especially that pertaining to matrimony.'
"There is, perhaps, no more beautiful sight than an old couple who have fought life's battle together, walking peacefully, hand in hand out into the setting sun.
"May the General and his better half live long to enjoy the fruits of their labors.
"Amen -- C.W.C. in Warren Sentinel -- Clipping in the "Taylor Notebook." It is not from the Palmyra paper. It may have been a reprint in another Virginia paper from the Warren [Va.] Sentinel -- undated, but probably 1924
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Taylor Family Genealogy
, d. 14 Mar 1932, Warren Co. Va.