Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-11-12
Golden Wedding.

Golden Wedding.
Life in these degenerate days is SO
short that he who has reached three
score and ten years is looked upon as
relic of the past, lone oak of the
primitive forest. Children look upon
him with reverence; young men and
maidens with respect, and the middle
aged with just consideration. How
much more the prodigy when two
having plighted loves young vow at
the hymeneal altar a half century
since, yet living have loves fondest,
purest devotion unalloyed, unspotted
and unceasing.
We had the pleasure on last
Wednesday of attending the golden
wedding of our old friend Mr.. JOHN
WADDELL, of Green township. Mr..
W. is not stranger to our readers.
His personal acquaintance is exten-
sive and pleasant. The irksomeness
of age is not his. A good memory
and splendid descriptive powers al
ways make him acceptable company.
His ancestry were alike known to our
older citizens. The name, WADDELL,
is familiar to our readers, being asso-
eiated with our oldest, respected
and trusted citizens. But to the sub
ject of our sketch.
Mr.. WADDELL was born on the
18th Of October, 1899, and his wife,
daughter of the late Judge ARM
STRONG, of this county, was born on
the 3lst of March, 1903. In 1924,
he at the age of twenty five, and she
at the age of twenty one, both in the
prime of vigorous life, united their
fortunes in wedlook. In looking over
the old marriage records of our coun-
ty, in Book D, page 81, we find the
following:
The State Of Ohio,(
Gdllia County, ss.
This is to certify that on the 4th
day of November, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred
and twenty-four, JOHN WADDELL,
son of JAMES WADDELL, and LU
cINDA MARTIN ARMSTRONG were le
gally joined in marriage by me a
Justice of the Peace in and for the
county of Gallia. Given under my
hand and seal this Sth day of Nevem-
Der, 1924.
JACOB BoswoRrH, j. P.
just fifty years after this memora-
BILE event, and after a life fraught
with events, yet of happiness, they
called their relatives, descendants
and family friends about them to
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
their welded life. A dinner was
spread and enjoyment was supreme.
What must have been the thoughts of
these old people on this occasion.
Like David of old they must have
crowded up too thick for utterance."
Their lives had been one success.
Ten children had blessed their union,
four of whom were living, viz: Mrs.
WILLIAM WoMELDoRFF, Mrs. LYDIA
HAY, Mrs. LUCINDA MCLOUD and
Mrs. NANCY Roach. The couple
have sixteen grandchildren and six
great grandchildren now living, and
in their old days, the afternoon of
life, they are truly happy. Commenc
ing life with nothing but uncompro-
missing wills, they have accumulated
sufficient of the things of this world
to ease the decline Of life, besides
giving to each of their children
enough wherewith to commence their
terrestrial labors handsomely. When
this race shall have been run, the
fight fought, and they be called to
say farewell to a group of weeping
friends, may they bid welcome to the
multitude of ransomed souls, where
mansions, crowns and robes are ever
ready for the pure in heart.
In this connection it may not be
amiss to say something relative to
Mr.. WADDELL's forefathers. His
graudfather's name was ALEXANDER
WADDELL. He came from Scotland
to this country and served as sol
dier in the Revolutionary War. He
first settled in Virginia; moved to
Gallia county in 1920, and died here
at the great age of one hundred and
two wears. He was for seventy-One
wears a member of the NJ. E. Church.
He has four hundred and three de
scendants. Mr.. JOHN WADDELL's
fathers name was JAMES. He was
born in Bath county, Va, December
7th, 1874; came to Ohio in 1915, and
the following year settled on the
farm where his son has since lived.
The WADDELLs as family, need no
praise from our pen. They are an
honest, intelligent and industrious
family from first to last. Not a mem
Der of the family has ever been ar