The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-01-25
Married After Sixty Years Of courtship.

The Winsted (Conn.) Herald says: A
marriage ceremony occurred in the clas-
sic locality of Sunkapogue, East Lyme,
on Thanksgiving Day, which merits
notice. It was celebrated at the resi-
dence OF Deacon George Griswold.
The bridegroom was John GrisWold |
Rogers, youthful bachelor Of seventy
eight summers, who wooed and won
his bride more than half hundred
years ago. The blushing bride was
Eliza Denfson GrfswoId, who is slightly
past sweet sixteen-there having been
several cold winters since then-at the
present time she is of the mature age
of seventy-nine. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. L. s. Hough,
of the congregational Church. Among
tho guests were two brothers of the bride
unitedly one hundred and thirty-oneI
years. Another brother, aged seventy
seven, was absent. Allen Rogers, Of
New London, aged eighty -one, broth
or of the groom, was detained at home.
It will be seen that the. couple belong
to a long-lived race, aud they no doubt
have many years of welded bliss before
them.
The bride has lived all her life in the
house next the one in which the editor
of this paper was born, [and he is no
spring chicken) and resided during the
first four momentous years OF his life,
and among his earliest recollections is
that Of the low-hung, pointed, brass
mounted swallow tail of this identical
.sluvyer," as it followed its wearer past
ttour house, to make the regular Sum
day evening visit to this identical maid.
Unless we are greatly in error the father
of the Herald editor, the late Rev. H.
l.. Vail, being then pastor of the church
in East Lyme, sspublished" this con-
slant couple about the year 1852 or 1883,
and tho wedding was expected to take
place Immediately thereafter. And so
far as is known there never was any
misunderstanding, or unpleasantness,
or milf, or hare-up, that can be assigned
rs the cause Of the delay. They have
always been considered "engaged,'
both by themselves and the neighbors,
and during visit to East Lyme, not
very long ago, We were informed that
this ancient beau still made his every
other-Sunday evening call, and had
hardly failed to do so Il single fortnight
for sixty years. Cautious aud prudent
pair! If all followed their example
there would not be SO much unhappi-
ness resulting from hasty marriages.
Mrs. Edwin Forrest Mt her Husbands Bier.
Mrs. Edwin Forrest, the trageClian's
wife, was, according to tho statement
ola reporter, at her husbands funeral.
He says:
Sitting ut the window facing Broad
street and with no ono near her, her
arms resting listIessly upon her knees,
her fingers norXously drumming and
toying each other, sat Catharine Sim
clair, tho divorced wife of tho dead.
Ifany ono knew who she was they ap-
peared to keep their distance. She ar
rived yesterday morning, and entered
the house ut half-past twelve. She was
dressed in deep mourning, with II
double black veil flowing nearly to
her feet. She moved nervously toward
the rear parlor, where the remains
wore lying. There were but five or
six persons in tho room. Throwing
aside her veil she stood for nearly ten
minutes, placed her hand upon his
head, and followed the arm down to
the hand, which she graspcd for few
minutes. Then she glidcd toward the
foot of the coffin, and plucked ono or
two flowers from tho eros. which lay
upon the dead mans feet. She then
moved rapidly to the front psrlor,
where she was seated until the coffin
loft tho house.
Toothpicks have become an impor-