Ben Smith and Morgan Jones

Robert and Laura Jones of Foreman, Arkansas, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Morgan Elizabeth Jones, to Benjamin Morgan Smith, son of Morris and Kathy Smith of Horatio, Arkansas.

Morgan, 27, is a 2016 graduate of Foreman High School and the water billing clerk for the City of Horatio. Benjamin, 30, is a 2013 graduate of Horatio High School and a Horatio City Councilman. He is employed as a millwright with Little River Construction.

The couple intends to marry at the Coulter Farmstead in Old Washington, Arkansas, with Coy Arnold officiating the ceremony. They are planning a Disney cruise for their honeymoon and look forward to living together in Horatio, Arkansas.

About the engagement: On the day the couple received the green light to move into their new home – news they’d been waiting over a month to hear, Morgan was carrying an armload of items from their old home and bringing them inside. Ben followed her across the living room as she shuffled inside, and as she began to set things down, her mom asked, “Don’t think you’re carrying enough stuff?” Ben laughed and said, “Well, if she’d ever turn around, I’d hand her something else!” Morgan turned to see what he was talking about. Ben was on one knee, ring in hand. Morgan cried, and it didn’t take her long at all to drop the rest of her armload. Ben said he was so nervous he forgot to even ask if she would marry him.