28. Quaker Wedding Of Jesse Reynard And Anna Diggs At Old Dunkirk Church, 1842.

Winchester Herald, June 25, 1919.

Sunday, June 22, will long be remembered as an ideally perfect day, both as to weather and enjoyment by the descendants of Jesse and Anna Diggs Reynard, who gathered at the old homestead near Buena Vista, now the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Clifton Reynard, to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Jesse Reynard on June 20, and also the wedding anniversary on June 16, of Jesse and Anna Diggs Reynard.
  The afternoon was very happily spent with music, reminiscences and a short program. The principal features of which was the reading of an account of the marriage ceremony of Jesse Reynard and Anna Diggs at the Friends church at old Dunkirk on June 16, 1842:

 " Whereas, Jesse Reynard, of Indiana, in the County of Randolph, son of Solomon Reynard of the same place, and Rachel, his wife and Anna Diggs, daughter of William Diggs of the county and state aforesaid, and Charlotte, his wife, having declared their intention of marriage with each other before a monthly meeting of the religious Society of Friends held at Sparrow Creek and having consent of parents, their said proposals of marriage were allowed by said meeting. These are to certify whom it may concern that for the full accomplishment of their said intentions this sixteenth day of the sixth month of the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, they, the said Jesse Reynard and Anna Diggs, appeared in a public meeting of the said people held at Dunkirk and the said Jesse Reynard taking the said Anna Diggs by the hand, declaring that he took her to be his wife, promising with divine assistance to be unto her a loving and faithful husband until death shall separate them and then the said Anna Diggs did in like manner declare that she took him, the said Jesse Reynard to be her husband, promising with divine assistance, to be unto him a loving and faithful wife until death should separate them and moreover the said Jesse Reynard and Anna Diggs, she according to the custom of marriage adopting the name of the husband, did as further confirmation then and there to these presents, set their hand.

JESSE REYNARD
ANNA REYNARD

  "And we, whose names are here unto subscribed, being at the solemnization of the marriage, have as witnesses there unto set our hands, the day and year above written.

Signed:

William Diggs
Marshal W. Diggs
Matthew Hill
Rebecca Hill
Elihu Bond"