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A Beautiful Love StoryThe following is an excerpt from an article published in the Hot Springs Free Press, on October 10, 1984. The Title of the article was "Memory of days gone by comes alive", by Candace Erickson. It is a love story about Genevieve Maddox and Charles Vance. Note that Genevieve's family ran the Maddox Hotel in Hot Springs, and Charles was an engineer, working in Hot Springs. He was supervising the installation of an elavator for the tower at the Hot Springs national park. "Among the memories of life in the big hotel, Pittman's most vivid is the romance which developed between her aunt and the handsome stranger who came to town to supervise the installation of the elevators in the tower. "It was in the hotel dining room where Aunt Genevieve, (Who was a 19 year old, brown-eyed beauty) served as hostess that a permanent romance developed, Pittman said. "A handsome, dark-completed Kentuckian arrived and registered as a long-term guest. His assignment was to supervise the installation of the steel elevators in the newly constructed steel tower on Hotel Springs Mountain. "Not long after his arrival, Aunt Genevieve was heard to say, "Oh, he is so handsome, and such style and manners…I really think I could fall in love with him." Pittman said the relationship developed and soon, "Charles Frank Vance was introduced to the Maddox family." The ensuing wedding was, of course, held on the Tower. Pittman described it: "The bride and groom, escorted by other members of the wedding party, were driven from the hotel to the tower in horse-drawn carriages, the groom's preceding the bride's. "Genevieve, in a beautiful floor-length wedding gown and shoulder-length veil was escorted by her attendants into the new elevator which took them to the top observation deck of the new tower. The groom and groomsmen in black-tie, and the minister in long black slit-tail coat were already in place for the marriage ceremony. It was a most unusual and very impressive wedding scene." Pittman said. The Vances made their home in Hot springs for several years, and he continued in the employ or the National Park service. Pittman said, "Aunt Veva and Uncle Frank lived in Memphis for many years when she died in May 1943 at the age of 58. I stood by her casket with Uncle Frank and as his tear flowed, his body in shock and shaking with sad emotion, he said, "Oh Eve (he always called her Eve) isn't she beautiful. She was always so beautiful. She is just as beautiful as that day on the tower."
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