The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-03-25
Golden Wedding.
TUESDAY MARCH q. 1871.
Wr. & ars. games 2. Burgess.
FIVE GUESTS PRESENT WHO
WERE AT THE WEDDING
FIFTY YEARS AGO. ONE
OF WHOM WAS THE
FIRST WHITE CHILD
BORN IN WAYNE
COUNTY!
Golden Wedding.
TUESDAY MARCH q. 1871.
APPROPRIATE PRESENTS, &C.

APPROPRIATE PRESENTS, &C.
On Tuesday last, by invitation Of
our old friend, JAMES p. BURGESS,
and in company with Hon. LEWIS
BURK, we were landed at the farm
house Of the HAPPY COUPLE whose
Fifty Years Of welded life, We
we're there to witness, and partake
Of the festivities We knew had been
% bountifully supplied for the oc-
casion, for, like the war-horse
seeming the battle from afar, the
printer can always tell where there
10 good provender!
On our arrival we found quite
number Of the old and tried friends
Of the family, together with the
adopted children and grand chill
dren Of Mr.. and Mrs. Burgess.
Az the invited guests dropped
in, one after another, the spacious
rooms were pretty we'll filed, and,
on taking good look at the aged
faces surrounding us. We must be
permitted to affirm that we have
never met . more plea SAINT, agree
able company. and so many hale,
hearty. gray headed, young-old
people in our life--the sight oper-
ated on US like galvanic battery,
and We really felt that We we're
then and there only about twenty.
Eve years old fact. We have
often wished We could see some of
the genuine. old-fashioned, good
humored, whole-souled greeting
and intercourse, that we had heard
80 much about years agone, in lieu
of the stiff, formal, new-fangled,
hightalutin, finical, fantastical, hyp
ocriti,al politeness, SO freely and
misccllaneously firted about, and
INDUCED in now-a-days, and We
were highly gratined at meeting
on Tuesday last, genuine sample
of the very article We so longed tc
behold. With the old Scotch dea
con, who, wheI he first kissed thu
woman who had promised to be-
come his wife, We felt like exclaim
ing, and we think We did:
| "Oh it is guide let US return
thanks -
| Fifty Years ago, last Tuesday
about eleven o'clock, James 2
Burgess and Theresa Weaver
daughter Of Peter Weaver, wer
married, in a log cabin. which i
} yet standing and in pretty goo
repair, not more than eighty rod
from the farmhouse they now re
side in, and have resided in for th
, past forty-seven years, which Nj
J B. (who is q carpenter by trade
built. At that time he only owne
about 10 acres-nov his farm nun
bers 80 acres.
Fifty Years ago, Hon. LEW
, BURK, who is now 72 years Of ag
, was groomsman, and carved tt
: turkey. On last Tuesday, he agai
officiated, in the same capacity, an
again carved the turkcy-and 70,
: other Witnesses Of the carving
0 that time, testify to the best
= their recollection, that father Bur
}, did the job quite as creditable NO
q az he did then--having lost mol
q Of his vigor as a carver. (He i
. forms US that, in about eighte,
: months more. il himself and wi
Q should live, their term of marri
70 life will have reached the gold
It ffty.)
We took the names and ages
those who were present at the nu
> tial ceremony fifty years ago, d
= it completely astonished US at t
t. aggregate of their number Of yea
9, to-wit:
~ NANRe. YDAl
- James p. Burgess ........ 10
" Theresa Burgess. ....... 6e
Lewis Burk. IL
- Jeptha Turner. -. ...6s
va Mira. Turner &C