The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-01-25
MARRIED FIFTY YEARS.
Mr.. AMI Mrs. W. W. Paxs0n Celebrate
Their Golden Wedding.

seventy guests accepted invitations.
The day was ideal aud the old farm
house was made comfortable and at
tractlye by fires on the open hearth.
The oldest friends of the bride and
groom took dinner from the mahog-
any tables brought to the home by
Mr.. Parsons mother when Sue enter
cd it as bride seventy five Years ago.
The china and silver were hers also
and the tablespoons belonged to her
father.
The decorations were gold and
green. Table decorations we're gold
en- with heavy satin ribbons gracefully
extended from the four corners of tho
long table to the center piece where
fruits and flowers were artlstically
grouped.
The souvenirs displayed the artistic
taste of Miss Annie Bfitton, of Phl5a-
delphia, aud were of white satin RIB.
bon with gold lettering, can bearing
a good photograph OF no Paxson
mansion, which has always been Wal
lace Parsons home, with the exeep-
ton of 20 years.
Among the very pretty mementoes
of the occasion, was II large square
glass bottle with fine etching, which
had formerly belonged to Wallace
Parsons great grandfather John
Lambert, for whom tue City of Lam-
bertyille was named, and who was
Governor of New Jersey and II Sena
tor. Mr.. Lambert east his vote for
peace at the conference i'll 1872.
In 1855 w Wallace Paxson, son Of
John X. Paxson, WIS married Mt llul=
land Station, n. J , to Mary daughter
of John G. and sarah Quinn, of Mil
ford, n. J. Their tine, daughters
are living and were present at the
celebration on Tuesday.
1t WINS n fine winter day and the
guests we're invited TO assemble Mt II
o'clock. As the Paxson family is one
of the oldest Solebury families brief
sketch may not be inappropriate.
james, Henry and William Paxson.
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Pennsylvania III the ship Samuel, OF
London, in the year 1852. James WAS
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was born June nth, 1926, mud he mar
risd Sarah Harvey, of Fails. in l74s
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Moses and Ann Paxson. In the yea
1863 Thomas Paxson bought lots and
10 of the Pike tract IN middle Sole
bury. and his second son Aaron Pax
son. married LetitIa Knowles, a
Buckingham, in 1775. The date oil
the building of the house on this farm
was TIA, and it has been IN possess
ion of tho Paxson family since 1868
John X. Paxson, the Youngest chile
of Aaron and Letitla Paxson, VIA
born in 1874, and mnnied Achsal
Dennis, of New Jersey, IN 1928. WI
liam Wallace Paxson, oldest child Of
John X. and Achsah Paxson, wns
born in 1929, and is the third genera
ton living upon this homestead farm,
and the sixth generation IN descent
The wedding presents "ete huhief-
Gus ana valuable ana WE g olsl'ia1 ee
upon tables III INC mall ol INC beCOuAi