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Fifty Years of Happiness Enjoyed by This CoupleMR. AND MRS. PHILIP NEIHEISEL.With nine of their ten children, twenty-nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren and hundreds of friends present Mr. ' and Mrs. Philip Xeiheisel of Bfidegtown will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary this morning with high mass of thanksgiv-, Ing at the St. Aloysius Church, Bridgetown.Among the friends who will help the hearty old couple to celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary will be Mr. and Mrs! Gustav Westricb, who witnessed their wedding. Rev. Father Herman Eliebrock of the SI. Aloysius Church will officiate at the golden redding services, Mr. and Mrs. West-rich will take their place beside the aged couple when they again take the vows of marriage.Philip Neiheisel is 73 years old and his wife 68 years. They were married in the Lady of Victory Church, Delhi, which still stands. On the day of their wedding the happy couple took up the life of farmers and have remained in the same dwelling since that day. Starting in with thirty-seven acres of ground, the Xeiheisels by hard work and close saving managed to add a little bit of ground to their plot each year. Several years ago the Neiheisel farm was the largest in the countryside near Bridgetown. It had about COO acres.Mr. and Mrs. Neineisel three years ago divided the farm among their children, who are all living in homes erected on their plots. The old couple kept enough ground surrounding their old horn© for a truck garden. Everyday when tho weather permits the couple can be seen working in their little garden patch.The Church in which the old couple will celebrate their wedding anniversary was built by Mr. Neiheisel, his father and brothers, in 1867, forty-eight years ago. During their entire lifetime the Xeiheisels have been among the staunchest supporters of the St. Aloysius Church, as have been their ten children and grandchildren.A desire that the old couple have held through the last- few years of their wedded life that their ten chil-J dren be present when they celebrate their fiftieth anniversary has been broken by the European war. One daughter, Sister Marie. Superior. of the St. Francis Home, Fifth avenue, New York City, is at present at the Mother House, Aachen, Germany. Because of the danger of ocean travel she was advised against trying to return to America in time for the celebration. The t other daughter. Sister * Mamerta of the St. Peter’s Hospital,* Brooklyn, N. Y., will be present to aid her happy parents in the celebration.The children who will help them celebrate their golden wedding anniversary are John Neiheisel, his wife and four children, farmer, of Bridgetown; Mrs. Rosa Eauch and four children of St. Bernard; Miss Freda Xeiheisel, who lives with her parents: Fred Xeiheisel, farmer, and five children, of Bridgetown; Gus • Xeiheisel, farmer, and five children, of Bridgetown; Mrs. Sebastian Thoma and three children of Bridgetown; Mrs. John O. Wahl, dry goods merchant, and four children, of Cheviot, and the daughter. Sister Mamerta, ef New York City.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Wed, Apr 07, 1915
Page 5
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