The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-06-03
Golden Wedding.

To reach the fiftieth anniversary of
welded life is an experience so rare as to
deserve commemoration, and the event
can be no more suitably observed than
in gathering home the children, and
near kindred and family friends to unite
their congratulations and give express
sion to the mutual recognition of the
Divine goodness that has spared hus-
band and wife to each other and to the
world so long.
The celebration of this golden we'd
ding was uncommonly interesting, in
the fact that the husband aud wife are
yet both in good health, and would not
by any appearance of infirmity be
classed among old people, though In
July of the present summer Mr.. Foote
completes his seventy-fourth, and Mrs.
Foote her sixty-eighth year; and it was
also remarkable that the mother of the
bride, Mrs. Almira Fairchild Wooster,
widow of Nathan Wooster, and now in
her eighty-seventh year, was able to
come from Norwalk to her daughters
golden wedding. Her hearing is some
what impaired, and on that account we
may take the liberty to mention that
she is still one Of the most charming as
well as one of the best preserved OF old
ladies.
E. o. Foote and Eliza NJ. Wooster
were married at Afford, Berkshire Co.,
Mass, May 27th, 1880, by Rev. Aaron
Scofeld. They had q large wedding,
and the bride wore handsome brown
ribbed silk, quite as stylish as the black
brocade worn the other night, even for
these days, though 1t required six yds.
for the first, aud three times as much to
make fashionable dress when the last
was purchased.
Nathan Wooster, father of Mrs.
Foote, moved to Ohio In the summer of
1880, and settled In Clyde, Sandusky Co.
In September, Nj. and Mrs. Foote came
on, and after visiting at her fathers,
went to housekeeping In Elyria, living
there two years, when they came to
Wellington and purchased the farm
where Lawrence Foote now lives.
They remained there about six years,
when Mr.. Foote was elected County
Recorder = which took them again to
Elyria. In 1s41 they moved from
Elyrla to farm In Russia, living on it
and near Oberlin fifteen years, since
which time they have been citizens OF
Wellington. During their residence in
Russia, their second daughter, Frances,
died, In her eighteenth year. Their re-
naming children, three sons and three
daughters, were all present at the gold
en- wedding; also the children by mar
riage except Col. Smith, who is absent
In the West.
The living children in the order Of their
ages are Mrs. Abbie Smith, Grotious D.
Foote, Mrs. Carrie Millen Of Norwalk +;
Nathan w. of New York; 4. o. Foote,
Jr., South Bend, Ind; and Miss Ella
Foote, a teacher in the Public Schools
of Norwalk. Among the guests from
abroad we're Henry NJ. Wooster and
wife and three daughters, Mrs. Boult,
Mrs. Patrick and Miss Allie Wooster,
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore s. Wooster, c.
w. Millen and family, all of Norwalk
and Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Wooster OF
Elyria. Henry n, w. F., and T. 8.
Wooster being the three remaining
brothers of Mrs. Foote, and brothers OF
the late John F. Wooster of Wellington.
There were also present, Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. s. Foote and Mrs. North OF
Cleveland, the latter daughter OF
President Mahan; Mrs. Sardine Wads-
worth of Massachusetts,, DIR. and" Mrs.
Higgins of Toledo, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Nathan Chapman Of Huntington, the
latter neice of E. o. Foote. A num-
Der of the elder families, and others, of
Wellington. besides those of relatives
living here, were also represented, max