Only old Jim Parmelee shook his head and said , `` They might , and then again they might n't '' ; he knew the stock they came of and it was a kind you could never predict about . Wesley and Theodosia were third cousins ; this meant that old Henry Ford had been the great-great-grandfather of them both . Jim Parmelee , who was ninety , had been a small boy when this remote ancestor was still alive . `` I mind him well , '' said old Jim on the morning of Theodosia 's wedding day . There was a little group about the blacksmith 's forge . Old Jim was in the centre . He was a fat , twinkling-eyed old man , fresh and ruddy in spite of his ninety years . `` And , '' he went on , `` he was about the settest man you 'd ever see or want to see . When old Henry Ford made up his mind on any p ` int a cyclone would n't turn him a hairsbreadth -- no , nor an earthquake neither . Did n't matter a mite how much he suffered for it -- he 'd stick to it if it broke his heart . There was always some story or other going round about old Henry 's setness . The family were n't quite so bad -- only Tom . He was Dosia 's great-grandfather , and a regular chip of the old block . Since then it 's cropped out now and again all through the different branches of the family . I mistrust if Dosia has n't got a spice of it , and Wes Brooke too , but mebbe not . '' Old Jim was the only croaker . Wesley and Theodosia were married , in the golden prime of the Indian summer , and settled down on their snug little farm . Dosia was a beautiful bride , and Wesley 's pride in her was amusingly apparent . He thought nothing too good for her , the Heatherton people said . It was a sight to make an old heart young to see him march up the aisle of the church on Sunday in all the glossy splendour of his wedding suit , his curly black head held high and his round boyish face shining with happiness , stopping and turning proudly at his pew to show Theodosia in .
They always sat alone together in the big pew , and Alma Spencer , who sat behind them , declared XXXXX they held each other 's hands all through the service .
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