Lovers Leap Wedding

A young couple chose to be married at this spot in Waco's Cameron Park



Waco Times-Herald
December 15, 1935

Romantic Young Couple Marry at Lovers Leap

Ceremony is Performed Saturday Afternoon at One of the Beauty Spots of Cameron Park

Roy King of Sanger and Miss Mabel Odom of Coleman chose a romantic spot for their wedding Saturday afternoon [Dec. 14]. The ceremony took place at Lovers Leap, where legend has it, an Indian maiden and her boy friend jumped over the bluff and were killed when the girl's family chased them with arrows and tomahawks to prevent their elopement.

The couple married Saturday had intended to be married Sunday in a regular church service, but it was such a bright, fine day and Lovers Leap was such a fine windy place in the sunshine that they called on Rev. Alva King, 20, senior at Baylor and brother of the bridegroom, to perform the ceremony in the park.

They stood with their backs to the stone wall edging the bluff, while Floy Ezell and Miss Clara King, both of Sanger, "stood up" with them.

Witnesses were Mr. and Mrs. R.A. King of Sanger, the bridegroom's parents, their son Billy Joe, their dauhter Clyde, Ezell Flatt of Wichita Falls, Eugene Brand of Cleburne. Flatt, Brand and Ezell are all Baylor students.

The young couple drove back to Sanger Saturday afternoon with the elder Kings.