The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1897-11-05
Fairfield County News
BETHEL.
THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING.

THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING.
On Wednesday evening, september 20
| 1897, few immediate friends called al
the residence of Granville Taylor, Esq.
at Great Plain, TO congratulate him on the
tlftieth anniversary Of his wedding tC
Helen, the eldest daughter of the late
DR. Sylvester Stevens, known many years
ago as a Thompsonian physician of ex-
tensive practice. Owing to the late Sc.
we're illness of Mrs Taylor, the bride, but
few near relations, the brothers and
sisters were invited to the festive board.
After short hour of happy congratuls-
tions and social intercourse by the aged
guests they were Invited to partake of
the wedding feast, the bride and groom
taking the head of the table as masters
of ceremonies when, after invoking d.
vine blessing by their son, Edward, the
bride presented the following impromptu
words written by her that morning for
the occasion.
We welcome you kind friends so gay
For It's our Golden Wedding Day.
With loving hearts and day so fair
With bright blue skies and bracing air
Mid lovely robes of autumn born
The leaves of bush and tree adorn;
So let us join with hearts OF love
The gifts of one who rules above
This food with gratitude partake,
These viands spread for friendship sake
In sacred love our bOsoms swell
In praise of God that all is well.
After the wedding feast, where the
jokes and repartee were enjoyed with the
sumptuous repast, the party adjourned
to the parlors where the golden presents
were displayed. With the many useful
gifts appropriate to the occasion among
which was the gold headed ebony cane
presented by the brother, James, to his
father on his golden wedding about 80
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bride was made more happy by the
shower of Klondike pieces of S., $40 and
$40 gold coins, the following poems,
written also by the aged bride, were
recited by Mrs Sarah Stevens, sister vi
the bride.
Fifty years of married life,
True to husband, true to wife,
We've had our Joys and also cares,
We've had our griefs and many tears;
But kept our hearts young with the years.
Three children dear to us were given,
Two lovely daughters called to heaven,
One stalwart son to us is here,
With loving wife and children dear.
God bless them all, is now our prayer.
Our comfort in declining years.
And now dear friends we welcome you
You've ever proved your friendship true,
With grateful hearts we would recall,
The many favors, great and small,
10 times of grief and bleeding hearts
AT loss of friends we were doomed to part
We ask kind heaven in heavenly way
To repay these gifts as heaven can pay,
With thankful hearts we accept the rod,
Whose Christening is the love OF God.
After the recitation Of the foregoing,
the following poem, written by Nelson
Taylor of Bethel, about 20 years Of age,
brother of the aged groom, was read by
Mrs Frederick Stevens of Bridgeport,
wife of DR. F. Stevens, only brother of
the bride:
NEAR THIRTY YEARS AGO.
Our parents held their golden wedding here
And we were witness to its loving cheer.
In this same room we meet again to-day,
To cheer golden wedding on its way.
Perhaps still other ones are yet to come,
While childrens' children keep this house
their home.
Hand in hand these two, full fifty years.
Have journeyed onward through this vale of
tears,
journey traught with love and hope and
pain,
One they resignedly would take up sgain.,
In the bright morning OF their trusting youth,
1 life was charm and love q solemn truth,
In the dim shadow of declining day
While love survives. life slowly GIBBS away.
In pleasant paths their eager feet have press
ed.
Now they are weary and are glad to rest,
Favored by IOftunes Lnab no Ills cOu1d stay,
They ever held the even tenor of their way,
Firm in their friendship, kind and true In
heart,
Theirs wass the choice to act the better
part,
When sickness ragged. theirs the strength and
skill,
To gain triumph DER many an ill,
Or when death triumphant as the pulse ran
low,
Theirs was the courage to sustain the blow. (
Long was the Journey, it Is almost done.
And when on earth its final course Is run,
May these two hand in hand with truth and
loveI
stil journey onward in their home above.
The guest present on the occasion. were
DIR and Mrs Frederick Stevens, of Bridge.
port, only brother of the bride; Mrs
Sarah Stevens, of Danbury, sister of the
bride; Mr. and Mrs James s. Taylor, Mi
and Mrs Nelson Taylor, Mrs A. T. Holt
en-, with the children of the hosts, Ed
ward Taylor and wife. The only SON Of
/ the bride and their chiidran