How swiftly the moments can fly when fledged with the music of love, and how quickly the time passed, though it seemed long to the lovers from the April sunset when they passed through the covered bridge to the June dawn that ushered in their wedding day.  The roses were in full bloom everywhere, the fences were covered with sweet muck roses and with eglantine which made such an artistic display, for rail fences then enclosed all the fields and generally the Cherokee rose grew wild along its zig zag path and often the corners were filled with larkspur in blue and white and pink, making an exquisite border of beauty about each home and garden.  Rhododendron and evergreens from the mountain side converted the home into a bower of loveliness for that June wedding in 1860.

The entire countryside seemed to have gathered for the occasion which was always followed by an "infair" to which all were invited.  The ceremony was performed by one of the brothers of the bride, who was a Justice of the Peace.  The bride was attended by her sister, Dicie Shrader.  The groom had for his best man his brother, Andrew Jackson Webb.

The groom was handsome in his black dress suit that he had bought in a northern city and for this occasion.  He was a gentleman to the manor born, standing six feet and two inches, a distinguished looking man with a fine mind and a courage given to few as the next four years proved, for the war between the states was in the offing, and he was destined to play a very brave part in the Second Tennessee Cavalry of Company 1.

The new home of the bride and groom was not very far away from the homes of either.  It was a gift from the bride's father and is now known as the Valley View farm and belongs to the heirs of N. G. T. Fox of Sevier county.  To this new home the bride and the groom each took two good beds with plenty of bedding, all made by hand by the bride and the groom's stepmother.  Some of the quilts and coverlids are still in the homes of the grandchildren.  Each took a cow, a horse and saddle and bridle, each took hogs and sheep and chickens and turkeys and everything that is necessary for the establishment of a home of peace and plenty.