Connecticut western news., 1922-05-18
SIXTY-FIVE YEARS
 OF WEDDED LIFE Mir. and Mrs. Ezra B. \ Huntley Celebrate / Occasion =.

/ MT. and Mrs. Ezra B. Huntley
 celebrated cn Saturday the 65th ar-
 niversary of their marriage. Un-
 doubtedly they are one of the very
 few couples residing in this>state who can claim such distinction. MT. and
 Mrs Huntley are exceedingly active
 for their years and chatted with re-
 porters in kAen lively fashion which
 bellies their age. N.
 MT. Huntley who is 85, and Mrs.
 Huntley, ST, were both born in New
 Marlborough, Mass. and come from long-lived families. When young they
 were both more or less sickly, so
 much so that MT. Huntley failed to
 pass the physical examination for enlistment in the army during the Civil war. / They have lived in Berk- shire County, Mass, nearly all their lives, but spent few years in Collins vile and Winsted, Conn. They were married on May IS, 1857.
 Three children were born of their marriage, two of which are still lly- ing. George E., president of the general Sunday School Association of the Universalist Church of Bos- ton, Mass. and William E., of Bris- tol, Conn, who is interested in the steel business. The third son died at the age of 15 months. It is remark able that no deaths have occurred since that of the infant son. r.-.. At the time of their marriage MT. Huntley was a carpenter and builA der, later he drove the horses on the express route from Southfela, Mass. to Hartford. He well remembers the beginning of the Connecticut Wes- tern Railroad and saw the first shovel of earth excavated at Winsted. For the past 28 years he had been en- gagged in farming, retiring only al few months ago when he disposed of his farm and came to Canaan to live.
 MT. Huntley has been greatly in- terested in horses all his life and mas raised hundreds of them. In New Marlborough people always called him when they had sick horses.
 He has been a member of the Housatonic Agricultural Society, known as the Great Harrington Fair, since it's organization and remembers the first fair given, which was held on the street of Great Harrington.
 Mrs. Huntley still does her own housework without assistance and for diversion braids rugs and makes patch quilts. She is fully as active as her husband and both spend much time in their Kitchen garden. About ten years ago she fell and broke her hip, an accident usually fatal at that age, but. she has fully recovered and walks with only slight limp.
 When MT. and Mrs. Huntley cele- brated their 6Oth anniversary, people from all parts of Berkshire County called on them. At that time MT. Huntley extended to them an invl- tation to be present at their roth If one is to judge by their present health, it seems possible that thi4 may transpire.
 When asked what he attributed lis long life to, MT. Huntley replied that one thing was "good behavior" He has smoked since a young man, ex- cept as he says, when he swore off. He has lived a temperate life in all things, but thinks he has used his share of tobacco, which he does-not consider fatal. Both MT. and Mrs. are great readers, taking the daily and weekly papers and several Mr. Huntley boasts that it is still possible for him to read the papers without his spectacles. -
 The celebration on Saturday was simple and quiet, only members of the family and few neighbors being A number of congratula- tory cards and messages were re- ,eived during the day. =