Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-03-30
A Golden Wedding.

EDITOR CHRoNICLE:-The golden
wedding of Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Lee was
celebrated on the eth inst, at their resi-
dence one and a half miles north of the
center of ,FarmingtOa. Children and
grandchildren, together with a large
numberHOf near relatives, had come to
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
welded life of the aged couple. Mr.. r.
II. Lee, of Spring Lake, Michigan, and
the only daughter, Mrs. DIR. Peck, of
Hartford, Wis, were present.
Dinner was served about two o'clock.
After the repast was over and the COM
pany had retired TO the parlor Mr.. Lee
made some remarks, stating that "he
came from the town of Oppenhiem.
Montgomery Co., n. ", with his faith
er's family, reaching Pennington on the
oath day of Feb, ISIS. He labored with
and for his father the two successive
years in helping him to clear the timber
from his farm. Previous to coming to
Ohio he had learned the ~clothier's trade
at which he labored as ~journeyman, fall
and winter; and on the eth day of March,
$50, was married to Miss Mary Smith,
OF the former named place, Montgomery
Co., N. Y, who came to Ohio with her
sister n his brother, Mr.. and Mrs. Ros-
well Lee, who celebrated their golden
wedding on the LIST of February last,
being in its way an almost unparalleled
circumstance of two brothers marrying
two sisters in the same year and living
TO celebrate each others ''golden wedding,
and each enjoying good health at the
present time, and a fair prospect for life
for years to come. With the exception
of sever years these two families have
lived neighbors and naught but the most /.
friendly feeling has aver been known to
exist between them" Out of a family of
eleven children, four brothers and seven
sisters, all of whom lived to be heads of
families, of which Mr.. Roswell Lee, now
IN his seventy-siXth year, is the oldest
the youngest being Over fifty-fOur years
of age-nine are now living. Death has
not entered their family of brothers and
for twenty-five years. Eight were
at the former and seven at the latter of
these golden weddings. The parents of
this family, Mr.. and Mrs. Abijah Lee,
together sixty-four years, old faith
er Lee being buried on what would have
been the sixty-fourth anniversary of
their welded life. Each of the eleven
referred to were represented in
the Union army during the rebellion,
and il is not known that there is a cop
perhead among the descendants of this
After the presentation Of gifts by the
children, a hymnw as sung the two first
verses of which are as follows:
With half hundred years now spent,
We come to celebrate, in rhyme,
This golden wedding, rare event,
To sing upon the shores of time.
Yes, rare event; how few remain
of those who heard our earlier VOWS,
We look around, but look in vain,
For those sweet eyeSand youthful brows
In the evening a pleasant surprise was
given by the appearance of the MeSopo-
anna Cornet Band. After ~discoursing
ZONE very fine music they were invited
n and partook of rich repast. On leav-
ng they very appropriately played,
Home Sweet Home"
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee and their family are
Imong Dur most enterprising and useful
That they may live long to en-
oy the confidence and society of their
and friends, and their setting
.un be as brighta as their day has hui far
)een, is the wish of S.