The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-10-07

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Dale, Miss Lila Tolley and John Ped
gett, Miss Cecil Bidez and VIII Elem
ing. Miss Francis Moore and Nimrod
orter, Paul Brownlow. Looney Wal
ker and D.. James Williamson. The
majority OF the party drove out to the
Sheegog home in wagonette.
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Family Reunion.
Friday, Sept. 80. was a day which
will be cherished in the memory of
each member and descendant of the
Lipscomb-McFall families while time
lasts, as one of the most thoroughly
enjoyable. it being their first faIaily
reunion at Forest Home" the at
tractive country place of Mrs. Emma
McFall, two miles west of town. The
occasion was to bring together each
member, old and young, in honor of
Major and Mrs. VIM. J.. Erwin, of
Batesville, Ark, and charming little
granddaughter, Miss Willie Erwin.
Maj. Erwin is a Tennessean by birth,
but has spent from boyhOod to ripe
old age in our sister State, where he
has amassed a considerable fortune, I
is large land owner and is connected /
with the principal banks of Batesville.
Twenty-slx years ago he was mar
ried to Miss Ida Lipscomb, youngest
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. George Lips I
comb. At an early nour the older
members of the families began to ar
rive and at noon the children, through
the kindness of their teachers, were
excused and with happy hearts HE'D
to the country for dinner,
and a long afternoon to be spent in
childish games, culling the autumn
riding and wading in the
placid stream of Little Bigby" The
lay was an ideal day, while the sun
shone in all his glory the giant old for
Est trees which were young sentinels
n the war times, are now old but
;rowned with green old age and their !
mighty branches afford a continual ;
shade, whilea soft carpet of waving }
,rass was dotted here and there with q
hairs, settees, benches, laprobes and +
A long table covered with
nowy linens and vases of bright flow /,
RS and potted ferns we're fanked on !
III sides by every conceivable dainty
for an elegant dinner from
he steaming hot coffee to the Gelic [
uos ices, but nothing was so promi
tent as the love and good cheer I
which made it truly festal board. d
When the dinner had been spread, Il
nd each basket and box had been q
mptied Captain A. A. Lipscomb, the Q
ldest member of the family, in his \
manner returned thanks
Or the occasion, for the magnificent i
east, for the gathering together of so
lany through whose veins the same T.
lood coursed thanks for the pres q
nee of love, for the absence of hard 4
ceilings and concluded with prayer r.
nat all should be spared for many n
ears. There were tears for the abb n
emit, whose places can never be filled,
nd regrets that few were unavoida &
ly kept away The day was finished
it'll family group being made, and III
} the evening shadows deepenei as G.
lie sun sank in his grandeur in the n,
est, as the chickens few one b. one bs
their roosts in the country trees, as pr
e twinkling bells warned us that the
ows were coming home" while the
sitting leaves meath their tread her
ded the approach of beautiful au- 8.
mn, the guests babe each other
od-bye and God bless" pr
The following were present: Capt. !
A. Lipscomb and daughter, Mrs. M;
nina McFall and daughters, Geo. Nc
ii and family. ". Spence McFall ms
d family, Miss Annie leicester, M,
'uston, w. H. Lipscomb, Ed Tur- aft
r and family, Theo Lipscomb and clu
nily, Mrs. Ed Church and daughter, vii
8. Lee Vaughan and children, Mrs. atr
ymond Adkisson and Raymond Jr., we
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