My parents met in the South Pacific during WWII. My mother joined the wacs the day the opened! My Dad was walking down a dirt road as a bus come at his direction! Saw his future wife on that bus. Married 4/2/45. Her ring was made from dental gold provide by the camp dentist
Share


On February 14, we will celebrate Valentine’s Day, the festival of romance.
Do you know of interesting marriage proposals in your family? Or, stories of long-lost loves or wedding celebrations?
In honor of the day of love, we want to pay tribute to the heartwarming stories of the couples in your family.
Just comment below, by February 12, about these stories in your family, and what makes them the most romantic couple by.
We’ll select our favorites to be featured in our blog, and one winner with the most romantic story will win a PremiumPlus subscription.
We look forward to reading your family romantic memories and stories below.
Heather Wilkinson Rojo
February 4, 2015
“William Cogswell, when a lad, was out from home by the highway, where some men were trying in vain to relieve a cow who had become choked with a potato. There stood by, also, a young girl, eight or ten years old, who watched with interest every effort made. When all experiments failed, and it was suggested that only by someone thrusting his hand down the cow’s throat would the cow be saved, she at once said, “My arm is small; I can do it best; you hold her mouth.” They did so, and she drew out the potato, to the great relief of the poor cow and all present. The young lad said to himself, “That young miss, by and by, shall be my wife.” from the compiled genealogy book “The Cogswells in America” book originally published in 1884 by the Rev. E. O. Jameson. The William Cogswell mentioned in the story is nephew of my ancestor John Cogswell, who was born about 1622 in England and lived in the Chebacco Parish of Ipswich, Massachusetts. He arrived in the New World aboard the “Angel Gabriel”, which shipwrecked in Maine. William Cogswell, the nephew, was born in 1659, and he finally married little Martha Emerson in 1685.