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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;elarnia, post: 6728, member: 159&quot;]The way my mother told the story - My great great grandmother was in love and wanted to get married in Indiana, not move to Texas with her parents.&nbsp; They thought she was too young at 15 to make that decision (he was 29) but she agreed to wait a year, and to&nbsp; stay with his parents (the mothers were 2nd cousins) until she was 16. Then they would either get married if she still wanted to or she would follow her parents.&nbsp; On Christmas eve, 1834, 4 days after her 16th birthday, they got married.&nbsp; They went on to have 11 children.&nbsp; This is a bonnet chest he made to go in the farmhouse he built while waiting to marry her.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1417[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Pardon the dust - I was in the middle of moving.)&nbsp; The knobs were not original - my aunt remembered it had rope pulls when she was little.&nbsp; When he heard that the old farmhouse furniture had been sold off my grandfather, who was in Georgia, went back to Indiana and tracked down the person who bought this at the auction and bought it back.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said - a neat item to have.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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