Albuquerque Weekly Citizen
(Albuquerque, New Mexico
25, Apr 1891 (Saturday)

Except from an article on page 4

"The above is the simple marriage announcement let at THE CITIZEN office by Rev. Menual; but the reporter learns a very pleasant romance connected with the affair. Mr. Fenton has charge of the Presbyterian school at Los Corrales, a small settlement about twelve miles above the city, on the opposite side of the river. Miss Lime is also a school teacher at Mora. They had arranged to meet here and marry; the day had been set and Miss Lime, who had no turbulent, treacherous stream to cross, was on hand. The prospective groom arrived on the opposite side of the old town bridge last night, a portion of which is swept away by the swollen Rio Grande. He hailed the ferryman and getting in the boat the man would only ferry him part of the way. This would not do—he would not be out done; and leaping in the the river he triumphantly swam to the other side. He did not appear before his lady love last night but he went direct to the reverend's house, his clothes wringing with water, and was put to bed, after the proper remedies had been administered to keep off colds. To-day he's a married man and Miss Lime secured a husband worth having.

Research supplied by Janie P. O'Rourke, who is writing a biography on the Fenton family.  According to Ms. O'Rourke, "Elijah McLean Fenton came to NM c. 1887. He was a traveling evangelical minister in northern NM (Taos, Jemez Pueblo, Jemez Springs, Cuba, Capulin, Corrales, Mora. Then he homesteaded north of Jemez Springs in the Cebolla Valley where Fenton Lake is now located."