Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-12-10
LOWELL COUPLE
MARRIED so YEARS
MIR. and Mrs. Freeman Farman Gel.
citrate Event In Quiet Manner.

Sunday, Nov 50, was the 5Oth an
nIversary Of the marriage Of Mr. and
Mrs Freeman Farman- Their many
friends gave them post card shower
II hen OF g more personal reminder
OF their golden wedding, which was
not feasible owing 10 Illness II their
family.
Freeman Farman and Mary Eliza
beth Trumpass were married Nov. 50.
1869. He was the son Of Herod and
ElTIra lHIIehcockl Farmzn and she
the daughter Of Thomas and Bath
sheba tMllsr) Trumpass OF West
held so On their mothers side each
especIively belong 10 the Hitchcock
I and Miller families once SO uumer-
ous N Westheld-
The first year they rented ms
/ brothers farm, now the residence OF
John Brahzna. OF Lowell IN the fol
4 loving Ial they moved 70 the farm
which has since been their home.
This Is the place where Mr.. Fzrmzn
was born MS father having moved
there about 1871 Freeman bought
the farm OF MS father n the fall Of
1875 The writer recalls only TWO
farms N the upper MissisquOi Valley
which have bean II the same family 3
longer tine, those OF Hiram Miller Of
West1eld, and perhaps that OF Vii
man SOuther Of Lowell, and no farm
which has been held and continually
lived on so long by the same propre-
tor
The house and main barn have been
built by Mr. Farman, the old house
having burned Oct Is, 1888.
Mr. Faman has always taken zn
active interest IN the affairs OF the
world and has been 2 dihgent read
er Of newspapers and periodicals IS
vel rs Of books The same Is true
Of Mrs Farmzn and she has also been
z pzins1aknE collector OF current
1oeErv and OF items OF local and his
toricaI interest During her lie she
has complled % volumes OF scrap
books. Ten Of them she has literally
made herself for she folded the
leaves and bound them herself They
contain many apt illustrations which
she has culle6 from various sources
and fitted 70 appropriate pieces II
hsr youth she taught school seTerz
terms One winter she had as schol-
ars Helen WInslOw, the writer, and I
J B0TrC87- now L. y District zTE0r-
nev Tor Massachusetts, In 1904 Mr.
Fzrrnzn represented Lowell N Ihi
legislature
Both now enjoy comfortable health
D for people Of their ages, 70 and So
n A good old family Of eight children
M has added 70 their happiness The7
ara Is follows, Morris born on TIT
Brahzna Mace, who died Monday O
Bright's disease; Nancy, now helplnE
her mother IN her old age She an
al the other children were born N tn
old house that burned Robert, mar
red, with three children and now nv
ing On IN adjoining farm; Rhode, Al
50 married. with three children, an
living IN Chicopee. Mass; Bsrts Ad
: cline. who died when thirteen; En
: Wade. Ted" married, now living 2
! home 10 help look after the farm
: Mabel, now Mrs William B BrowI
- VINO lives IN Piermont, N H, an
has one son: Park Euright. lately dis
: charged from the army and receuIr
married. He and his wife are nov
spending q few weeks with ms par
ents N the old home
4 To Freeman and Mary Fzrman o
= Their Golden Wedding Anniversary
Today We send you greeting,
: Your many friends, YOU know,
!, Not less, because not meeting
: With hearty shake 70 show
Our honor 70 your wedding oEy
e OF fifty years ago
- Fifty years ago today,
n The last day Of November,
Il When Freeman married Mary,
D How few Of Us remember,
But dozens Of rs surely may
. For We are amply able
of Now tel OF many happy Gay
d When we've eaten at your table
Time flies. the years 90 swiftly by,
And Youth and Age ike brothers
Stand each 2 guardian OF door
We mass through ike al others
- But In the passage many deed,
And many 2 word Is spoken
Which falls and lives ike the sOWer
seed,
Which was OF truth token
rs Or ike viewers swiftly the SHUT
plying,
We put In the days and the years
orr life
Side BY side the lines are lying,
Chords OF music and threads OF sIrl
pie Each has its place II the web We q
Us The things We have done and the !
we have borne
ar We 90 on. We stop not, We ever
leaving
Not til the woof from the shuttle
ne torn
Side by SIDE two ~eavers are Wea
Each On pattern that's partly
81. And partly plan that both
INC achieving,
III Too great and far-reachzng Tor e1lr
and alone
= Many year WITH common = - -
rs As the shu1ties forward and ca'
Els ward few,
say They twined their WOODS with co
MN filing
To fashion home from the tnrei
1nI they drew