The Monitor-register., 1897-03-19

when an occasion required, to Law aside
his apron of leather, don his iadicial
robe, organize a court of Justice and
proceed to elueidate intricate cases of
Jurisprudence and settle them with firm
ness and satisfaction to all. He was aIso
the peace officer. His quiet warning to
young men and boys on mischief bent
usually had the effect to stop their law
lessness, otherwise they knew what
would follow.
ne IL was that was called into the
parlor at the residence of Samuel Fl.
Weatherby, then merchant and post
master, on that Sd day of 81 Month, 1847,
to perform the marriage or to
marry Barclay Edwards and Kitturah
W. Moore. There were present, as wit
nesses, Samuel Ii. and Martha w. Wealth
erby, Sarah and Ann Edwards, Catharine
Weatherby, Henrietta G.. and Lydia A.
Ot these there are present with us tc day
Martha W. Weatherby, Sarah Gaunt,
Henrietta @. Lippincott and Lydia A..
Lippiucott.
Oar host, Barclay, was born on 3D. of
18th Month, 1924. His parents were
ihomas and Sarah Lippinoott Edwards.
They were married at Friends Meeting
house, WoodstO wn, 7th of 9th Mo, 1918.
Many of us remember Thomas, standing
straight full six feet in height, and with
a character for honesty and %upriQhtness
AZ straight AZ his stature. He sat at the
mead OF the meeting for many years, and
did much public business. He died In
lo0S, aged 81 years. bis mother, Sarah
Lippiuoott Edwards, was the daughter of
Aaron Lippincott. aud was born Oh Mo
18th, l7SS, on the farm in Gloucester
county, now occupied by Benjamin Crie-
pin. She died in 1868, aged rs years.
Her grandfather, Benjamin Lippincott,
with his brother Caleb, were the first of
the family that settled in this part of the
State. They With their father, Jacob.
bought a large tract OF land in Gloucest,,
Salem counties, Of which the farms
of Alfred and Isaac Lippincott are "a paft
O0 this tract they settled about 1850.
Those brothers, Ben .min and Calel
married sisters, Hope and Hannah WILL,
-BeDjamin 10 1741, Calebin 1862. Their
father, jacob, was tho grandson OF Rich
ard, who settled in New Jersey 10 1869.
was the first Lippiucott that came to
America Barclays parents, at the time
of bis birth, lived on the farm now owned
by Samuel RldGway, some three miles
northeast of Woodstown, and there he
grew to manhood. Kitturah w. Moore
was the daughter OF Jacob and Eliza
Wood Moore, who, at the time of her
birth, 8sh Mo. 81, 1924. lived on the farm
at the south end of Mulliea Hill, now
owned by Richard Black.
Alter their marriage they settled on
the farm now occupied by Thomas Ed.
wards, but two years after moved to the
farm where the said Samuel Ridgway
now lives, where they remained until a
few years ago, when they removed to this
place. There were born to them two
sons, Jacob M. and Harry w; and four
daughters, Ellie, Carrie, Eliza and Sallie.
Then there came two other daughters,
Ellen and Eliese; aud four sons, Aaron
Coles, Ellison Moore, Elijah Horuer and
VIM. e.. Edwards All of these are
well settled in homes of their own. and
to the family circle have been added
| hTfapn rananhtI1,& ~ .
regret to us and the cause of much ex-
pressed sympathy for our friends is the
fact that all their children except Aaron
and Ellie, William aud Sallie, bave their
homes at such a distance as to forbid
them and their families from being here,
with the exception of Eliza G, Horuer
and Jacob NJ. Edwards, of Colorado.
We do heartily co pgratulate our aged
friends tina so much of pleasure and
success in life has been theirs 10 enjoy.
Their children nave grown to men and
ome and into honorable aud useful
positions in the community. That in all
the fifty long years the family has been
NoHS law u " uC6lh " hCh q
grandson, Ebert Homer, a dear boy of
eight years, was taken. and again, when
the respected and much beloved son,
Elijah HOrner, was taken.
And we again congratulate them that
they were endowed with such kind and
loving dispositions, such genial social
qualities, such kindly sympathy for those
afflicted or needing aid, ever ready %
give their time and attention, that they
have now attached to them a large circle
of warm friends, for outside of this par
ticular gathering there is to day much
interest in this fiftieth anniversary.
And We may congratulate them fur
Their. Their seventy-three years of life
have extended over the most eveptful
period of modern times. A period fraught
with more important inventions and
mighty achievements than any other like
period. In 1924 the statesman-like adj
ministration of James Monroe, which
had been remarkable for many important
measures, not the least of which was the
Missouri Compromise, was near it's end.
Then came the courtly ard educated
John Adams, whose fine manners and
knowledge of diplomacy did much to
elevate the court of the United States,
Then followed brusque, rude, self willed
Andrew Jackson. His force of charac-
ter, bis strong government, his prompt
ness in suppressiDg an iDoipient rebellion,
his peculiar measures of f~iaance, made
him famous in history. President Van
Buren, followed. His administration was
chiefly remarkable for the discomfort of
the people and the monetary disturbance
caused by President Jackson's action,
But these were slow times. Our friends
were four years old before any steam
railroad had been built in the world.
They were ten years old before any steam
railroad had been built in New Jersey.
Agriculture and manufactures at the
North were at a low ebb; farms were
poor, so were most Of the people: much
of the clothing was made of wool grown
and spun Oh the farm; wood and the open
fireplace were the means of heating the
usually poor houses; coro wood was the
principal salable product of many farms:
turnpikes were thirty years in the future,
and wagon roads were entirely unim.
proved; carriage were without springs
aud harness was made of rawhide.