The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-10-29
OLDtN DAYS ARE
RECALLED BY THEM
Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Field
mann Celebrate Fifty-fifth
Wedding Anniversary.

The ffty-fifth anniversary of the
marriage of Mr.. and Mrs. John H.
Feldmann was quietly celebrated at
their home. 301 South Seventh street.
today. The children of the aged cou-
pie, friends and neighbors dropped in
during the day to extend their wishes
and congratulations.
To talk with this aged couple. each
76 years old, is to tear page from the
history Of Richmond. in which will be
recalled days When grass grew where
now stands the imposing Second Ma
tional bank building, when the site of
the Geo. H. Knollenberg store was a
pasture, a brickyard marked where
now is st. Paul's Lutheran church and
business on Main street was confined
to the narrow strip between Fourth
and Fifth streets.
The couple was married in ST.
Johns Lutheran church on South
Fourth street in 1857. Mr.. Feldmann
was born in the province of Hanover
in 1885, coming with his parents to
Richmond in 1914, over Baltimore.
The trip inland was made by canal
boat and stage. Mrs. Feldmann was
born in the same province in 1886, and
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ger
hardt Sudhoff. pioneer German resi-
dents Of this city. The parents Of the
church were charter members of St.
Johns Lutheran church.
The couple has been members of ST.
T1h oh he;r iy,
Richmond. They have seen the growth
of that congregation from the days
when the founders were glad they had
planks to lay across wooden blocks for
seats to the present beautiful edifice
of the congregation on South Seventh
street. Mr.. Feldmann has been honor
ed by the congregation with election
to all the offices which the organiza-
ton can bestow on one of it's members.
When Mr.. Feldmann first came to
this city, grist mills and cooperage
shops were the principal industries.
Flour was sent to Cincinnati by stage.
The southern stage came to Richmond
via Boston and the tavern at the north
west corner of Main and Sixth street
was the headquarters Of the transpor-
tation system, south. east and west
was located.
The advent of the first railroad into
Richmond from Cincinnati saw Mr..
Feldmann engaged as one of the labor
ers on the right of way near where
Glen Miller park is now. This was in
1851. Two years later the railroad
from Dayton, O.. entered this city.
yFffty-one years ago Mr.. Feldmann
built the brick cottage on South Sew
enth street. which has been his homo
since. 1t was the only house on Sew
enth south of c street, and where
Ninth street is now was an unbroken
stretch of woods In 1853 he opened a
shoe repairing shop on the lot back
of his home. conducting the business
for forty-eight years. J
He and the Rev Mr. Thesis, the first
regular pastor. of ST. Johns. church
that helped extinguish a blaze where
the court house stands now, and which
for a time threatened the whole city.
Shortly afterwards he helped operate
the little hand pump with which a Sc
rious fire On the southwest corner of
Main and Fifth street was extinguish-
ed.
The couple has four sons. Jonn. Ad.
am and Ed. Of this city, and Fred of
Springfield, and one daughter. Lena
Feldmann. who makes her home with
her parents
Mr.. Feldmann is enjoying compar-
atively good health, but Mrs. Field
mann has been blind for a number OF
years. "a