Bowling Green Times, 
June 5, 1890
pg. 1, col. 4:

Shipp-Wells.

                Married, at the residence of Mr. Ben. Shipp near Paynesville, Tuesday noon May 27^th, 1890.  Mr. John R. Shipp and Miss Mollie Wells, Eld. T. A. Abbott officiating.  The jolly, jovial Dick and his happy and beautiful bride immediately took the train for St. Louis, whence they go to Brookfield and Kansas City.  May no storm and tempests await this Shipp as it sails on over the waters of life, but evermore may the seas be calm, and the skies be clear.

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