The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-08-05
united love Of all your children and

united love Of all your children and
other friends. Many pleasant remines
cences crowd upon us Mt such a time as
this. It seems but yesterday when We
all had our places at your table; our be
love! father at its head, giving thanks
and asking Gods blessing upon us ell
/ Our cherished mother (mid many cares
with her ever loving SMILEY, in her &C.
customed place. The lively prattlo and
playful rejoinder from childish lips are
now things of the pact, and We in our
turn have our cares and duties.
"May care sit AS lightly on us, amid
the sunshine of halfa century, as 1t has
upon you; and may we be enabled to
do our duty toward our little ones rs
you have done to US.
"Long may you live to use, for our
sakes, the gifts now presented; and as
your sun goes down. may the golden
beams from the sun Of Righteousness
shine in your hearts. o! that we all
may be united in golden bands of love,
being bound in the bundle of life; and
together may we walk the golden streets
OF the New Jerusalem, and sit together
at the feast in our Fathers house
above"
Rev. D. l.. Hughes then made an APP
propriate and touching address to the
aged couple, their children and friends,
congratulating them upon their happy
interview OH this very rare and interest
ing occasion. He then read brief his
tory of the family, prepared by the aged
father, (of which send you All extract },
and then closed with prayer. 1t was
indeed day of days; aud one that will
ever be remembered as a waymark in
life-an oasis, where the life traveller
stopped aud was refreshed.
"*Simeom Arvin Bagley was born il,
Grafton county, New Hampshire, April
20, 1898, but brought up in Vermont.
Vermont, March II, 1901.
"Simeon A. Bagley and Almira L.
were married Aug. l, 1919, in the town
of Royaltori, Windsor CO., Vermont.
'After six years they emigrated to
Athens CO., Ohio, remaining there four
years. They then moved to Knox co.,
Ohio, where they lived nine years. Oct.
lst, 1888, they left Ohio for Iowa, travel
ing 600 miles in wagons. There was at
this time ten Indians to one white man
in the State of Iowa" In Father Bag
ley's own words, 1--WE reached West
Liberty, our new home, Oct. Odd, 1888.
The 9Th day of November was the land
sale at Dubuque. Our lands that we
had bought the claims on were exposed
to sale to the highest bidder; SO few of
us left our families at the mercy of the
Indians, to 60 to the land sales to secure
our homes. The second day of the sale
| bid off 400 acres, including the old
town of West Liberty.
ain this journey and stay at Dubuque,
we suffered greatly; we Travelled with tut
roads. forded dangerous streams, and a
terrible snow storm came upon us, when
we had no proper shelter for ourselves
or our horses. We commenced improv-
ing a farm and building house, and in
July, 1889, we began keeping house of
entertainments, and carried on black
smith shop, &c.
I'm the spring of 1914 we sold our
place here, and bought $50 acres, five
miles west of Upton, and in the spring
Of lS45 we moved to our new farm in
Cedar county. We lived on this farm
five years, then moved to Upton, where
we have lived up to this time. In poll
ties we are all Republicans.
"Wm. Bagiey served one term in the
35th Iowa Reg't. JAS. w. Bagley, dec,
one term in the 46th Reg't.'
Upton, Iowa, Ang. I'd, 1869. -