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PAOBEIGHTFDR 00L0EN WEDDINGASEXjATIVES A!SD FRIENDS MEET RTnBrm and LAMBERT HOOVER,Mr. and Mr*. Lambert J. Hoover, whose marriage on July 2»; 1877, was chronicled in the Tribune's fifty year* ago column Saturday, celebrated the day by entertaining a company of friends and relatives at their cottage, Harmony” at Lake Manitou. Their home In this city Is at 1414 South Buckeye . street, A bounteous dinner at noon and a ride on the lake on a chartered excursion boat were among the pleasant features of the day,Mr. Hoover was born In Miami county, Ohio. May 15, 1842. He entered the Union army a* a lad of nineteen, serving with the 48th Ohio Regiment, Co, E. He took part In many battles and at Red RJver was captured and placed in 6l Texas prison where he was kept seven months. Later his entire company was exchanged and he was discharged after three and one-half years of sendee.Mrs. Hoover, whose maiden name was Ella Peters, was bom in -Preble county, Ohio, October 4, 1854, and came to Howard county as a child. All of their married life has been passed in this county, most of it in Kokomo although they spent twelve years on a farm near Greentown. They have one living daughter, Mrs. J. R. Riffe of Ervin township. A son Charles and a daughter Grace, died a few years ago.Mr. Hoover In his erler days in Kokomo was an agent for one of the early makes of sewing machines. Later he was employed at the hardware stores of Taylor McNeil and Dixon Hillls. For fifteen years he was custodian of the Palmer school building.They have four grandchildren, Lambert Hoover of Spokane, Wash. Mrs, Hiram Washburn of Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. Frank Butz of Walton and Mrs. Walter Jones. There are eight great grandchildren.' 'tlv, S J a: U h U c] ERMtcBLbifrtfcolwthTlcsPiCOAiiU!
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Kokomo Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Mon, Aug 01, 1927
Page 8
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Kokomo-Howard C.
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