The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-02-22
MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED IN


" As, 1892 40
" 81, 1888 90
2o, 1894 Al
MARRIED COUPLES OF FIFTY YEARS STAND
ING, JAN. I, 1895.
David Eastman and Susan Corliss
were married Nov. 10, 1885, by Rev.
S. Kelley. Mr.. Eastman has been
blacksmith and farmer. Both are past
80 and have no children living.
Oliver B, Rogers and Polly Ann
Carleton were married Mar. FL, 1898
by Rev. J. G.. Dow.
Hugh 6. Gibson and Abigail Mel
son were married April 8, 1890 in Rye
gate by Rev. William Pringle.
Benjamin Sanders and Ruth T. Wor-
then were married April %, 1841, in
Wentworth. N. H., by Thomas Whip
pie, Esq.
John Aitken and Katherine Thomp-
son were married in April, 1912, at
Markinch, Fifeshire, Scotland, came to
America the same year on the ship
'Wellington," were seven weeks on the
passage, reached Newbury in the fall,
and settled on their present farm in
I848. Mr.. Aitken is by trade stone
mason.
John A. Meader and Ann M. Page
were married Dec. 8, 1913 by Rev.
Alonzo Webster.
John H. Minard and Roxylana G.
Move were married in Waterbury Feb.
&c, 1913.
Luke Temple and Mary Ann Avery,
were married Dec. S, 1874 by Rev. G.
w. Campbell.
Henry Whitcher and Julia Weed
were married Jan. 10, 1874, by Rev.
Benjamin Burnham.
1t will be seen from the preceding
that David Eastman and wife will COM
plete their sixty years of married life in
1895, if they live. Isaac Eastman and
wife were married sixty years ago New
Years. They were long residents of
Newbury, but removed to South Rye
gate few years ago.
Fifty years is a long time for man
and wife to live together. One might
moralize an hour or two over the va
ried experiences which fall to their lot.
But rarer still is that combination of
physical vigor, and freedom from adj
verse circumstances in the husband
and wife, whose journey together ex-
tends beyond the period of sixty years.
The following list embraces all those
couples whose married life of more
than sixty years was terminated by the
death of the husband or the wife in
Newbury, where the date of marriage
is known to the writer. No doubt but
there are several others. This list
gives date and place of marriage, and
the date of its ending, with the includ-
ed time of such cases as we have been
able to learn the particulars.
Gen. Jacob Bailey and Prudence
Noyes, Newbury, Mass, Oct. I6, I745,
June I, 1909, 60 years, 7 mos. IS days.
Dea. Selah Wells and Mehitable
Tuthill, Aquebogus, L. l., April 80,
1872, May 6, 1898, GO years, days.
Col. Joshua Bailey and Anna Fow-
Ter r775, May IS, 1887, 62 years.
William Peach and Elizabeth at
Marblehead, Mass, 1878, Jan. 2S,
1889, 90 years.
Col. John Smith and Sarah Kincaid
at Haverhill, April 6, 1880, Oct. 2S,
1851, II years, months, 22 days.
Ashbel Buell. and Huldah Webster
at Litchfeld, Conn, Nov. I, 1887,
Nov. 3, 1858, GO years.
William Atkinson and Anna Little at
Newburyport, Mass, March 1904, Apr.
IS, 1866, O. years.
Haynes Johnson and Phebe Hasel-
ton, at Newbury March II, 1874, July
8, 1873, 81 years, 3 months, ~ days.
Parker Bailey and Eliza Ward, at
Haverhill, 1917, July I2, 1881, o. yrs.
Wells Goodwin and Lydia Heath at
Haverhill, Oct. 3, 1919, Dec. 81, 1887,
6S years, mos, "a days.
Justin Lindsey and Amy Meserve, at
Newbury June 4, 1926, Nov. 2, 1886,
90 years and months.
James Smile and Susanna McAlpine,
at Amesbury, Mass, Nov. 1926, July
1889, 90 years.
John Bailey and Martha Powers, at
Newbury 1919, Aug. al, 1879, 90 WIS.
Gen. Jacob Bailey, Col. Joshua Bal
ley and John Bailey of the above list
were respectively father, son and
grandson.
NEwBURY oCToGENARIANS.
There was published in the OPINION
of March ?, 1894, list of "A persons
over eighty years of age, two of the
number, John II. Meader and Isaac
Eastman then living out of Newbury.
Mr.. Meader has since returned and
lives in town. OF that number the fol-
lowing persons have died:
BORN DIED
Jan. %. 1911. Samuel Moore. Mar. 3. "a.
May %. Is O. Dea. John smith, ~. 81