Comment from the Facebook group from Dawnie Businger: An elderly lady I used to sit, 98, at the time, told me tales of various suitors hitching a ride to Ironton from Huntington and Proctorville to get marriage licenses. Her husband was one of those people. Bud Bareswilt. His sweet wife Ione remembered that he asked her to marry him and the next day, hitched that ride. He returned, and they were married in her parent’s house. She said to hitch a ride, they would send row boats out from the shore with passengers who paid a nickel.
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