Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-09

| children and many friends, Mr. ana
| Mrs. Cornelius Yeager of the soldiers
| home. cd residents of this city, cele-
| DRAFTED today the fftieth anniversary
| of their marriage. The anniversary
| proper does not come enti Monday,
| but today proved more convenient for
| the celebration OF the event, which
| took place al the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Frank w. Moehrl. 100 North Fifth ave
nue.. Mrs. Moehrl is a daughter Of
| Mr.. and Mrs. Yeager.
Fifty friends of Mi and Mrs. ieager
we're entertained at the Moehri home
| AZ d reception held from to . O'CLOCK
| The rooms were decorated with golden
! rod and aSterS. On table was Il
! large BOUQUET Of rosehuds sent 10 MI
| and Mrs. Yeager by Frank NJ. Thomas,
! w r. {. No. 3, of which Mrs. IeaSer
| has long been a member. Mrs. Moehrl
| was assisted by Mesdames Q. j. Saline
| and John Moehrl in serving refresh
ments. Mr. and Mrs. Yeager were the
recipients Of many gifts, including a
| purse of gold from their children.
Have Lived Here Twenty. Eight Years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Yeager have lived in
this city almost twenty eight years
/ having come from a farm in Indian
! town township. Tama county in OCto-
Der. 1855
Mr.. and Mrs. Teager are both ma
| tiyes Of PENNSYLVANIA. Mr. Yeager
| having been born at Millershurg. Lar
| caster county, June -, 1914. and Mrs.
Yeager at Port Carbon. Schuy'kill
\ county. Oct {. 1913. Mrs. Yeager was
Eliza Murty prior to her marriage.
Mr.. Yeager came to Iowa when he
was > years old. his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Isaac Yeager. settling in Scott
county. Mrs. Yeager's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Murty, came to this
state in 1852, and settled in Indiantow!
township. Tama county, near where
the old town of Butlerville stood.
Mr. Yeager and Miss Murty were
married in this city Sept. IL 1856
Judge Lampman performed the cere-
mony in the home Of Obed Caswell
which then stood where the New Eng
land store is now situated. at the cor
ner of Main street and Second avenue
Mr. and Mrs. Yeager moved TO a farm
in the same neighborhoo6 where Mrs
Yeager's parents lived, and reside
there until they came 20 Marshalltown
with the exception Of few years
spent in Boone.
Mr.. Yeaeer Former Deputy Sheriff.
Not long after MI and Mrs Yeagei
came to this city Mr.. Yea ger was APP
! pointed by Mayor Nielsen Ames a
member of the city police force, and
served for eighteen months during
1SS9-90. During John S. Hixson's
| second term as sheriff. in 1891, Mr.
| Yeager served a year as deputy, and
| when J. B.. Pence became sheriff. in
| January. 1892. Mr.. Yeager was made
his outside deputy. serving three and
one-half years In March. 1892. Mr.
Yeager became TALLER, and had charge
! Of the Jail for almost three years.
Mr. YeaGer's service in the civil wal
dated from April l. 1864 when he en-
listed at Davenport in the Twenty
! sixth Iowa. He was assigned to driv
| ing a team and building barracks in
| Tennessee. where ne contracted typhoid
fever and was for several weeks in a
hospital at Nashville. He was dis
charged July %. 1854 at Nashville and
| Oh iJcl. . u Tie SAME ear. al DdN eli =
port. enlisted in Company B. Fifteenth
Iowa infantry. His final discharge was
on July -, 1865, at Louisville, KY.
Parents Of Nine Children.
Mr.. and Mrs. Yeager became the par
! ents of nine children, four of whom
are living. They also have fifteen
| grandchildren. The living children are
| Albert Yeager, of Grundv Center: Will
liam Yeager, Of White Rock. S. D.:
| Mrs. Lillian Moehrl of this city; and
/ Clarence Yeager, Of Ottumwa. The
| children who are dead were Leona. who
| became Mrs. H. H. Crawford, and who
died in 1910: Maggie. who became Mrs
Charles Cunningham. and who died in
1919: Ethel. who died in 1902: Claude
who died in 1908, and Agatha, who died
a. the age OF 6 in 1879.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Yeager are in
good health for people of their years
| They have been occupying a cottage al
the soldiers home since April II. 1912
and have made many friends in the
large colony of old people at the home
Mr. Yeager has one sister, Mrs Mary
J. Hills. who is a resident Of this city
There are two other sisters. Mrs E. c.
and Mrs. William Taylor, of Ralston
Neb Two brothers John and Oscar
Yeagar are dead. Mrs. Yeaser ha:
three half sisters and one half brother
living. Her only brother. James Murty
died at his farm near Indiantown, Dec
"a, 1914 Mrs. Yeagers sisters are
Mrs. Sarah Boyer of Barberstown. y
J.; Mrs. Joseph Knittle, of Lodi, Cal.
and Mrs. Abram Kline. of Sebastopol
Cal - hall sisters and brother are
Mesdames Joseph Bellmore, Benjamin
F. Gettle, and Charles Damn and viii.
liam Murty. all of Green Mountain.
There were in attendance at the an
niversary gathering from out of towr
Albert Yeager, of Grundy Center;
Messrs and Nesda mes william, M;:-.y
Joseph ard Albert Bellmore, B. F. Get
tie, Charles Damn, and Harry Grubbs
ali or Ireen Mountain; and Mrs. Mary
Downey, Of Muscatine, the latter a
niece Of Mrs. Yeager
A. T. GRuWELL DEAD.