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COUPEE CELEBRATE SIXTY-FIFTH WEDDING DAYHenry Nelson Howell, and hisj wife Elizabeth Bird Howell, pioneers of Utah and Idaho, and honored residents of Clifton, Idaho, for the last sixtj years, celebrated their sixty-fifth weddiqg anniversary in the ward chapel here last Thursday, December 30. The celebration wliich was attended by numerous children,grandchildren xind great-grandchildren* and by many friends and relatives, began at eteven o'clock, a.m. and continued without intermission until twelve o’clock mid-night. A banquet was served, after which the members of the family entertained in a splendid program until later in the evening. At eight o'clock the doors were opened to. the general public aqd many camo and enjoyed/ tfanselves in a free dancing pjirty. Buring the dance, some of the program was repeated by request. At mid-night the cake was cut and passed around.The bride is 81 years of age and the groom is eighty-six. They were rmtr’ried at Payson, Utah, just sixty-five, years ago.Henry Nelson Howed was horn in1* Gibson County, Tennessee. He crossed the plains by ox team with4ds=4ntlier-^an(L=seUled=in“Payson~Utah. •, Elizabeth Bird Howell, was born at .Cambridge, Mass., on New Years d 1846. At the age of three weeks, her mother having died, she sailed with foster parents around Cape Horn do California, in the good shipBrooklyn. It is doubtful that there itfanolher person now living who was a passenger on that ship. j ^The * living,, .decen dents , of. „ this couple number ninety-five: sevenchildren (four others dead) tlnriy-hlhe grandchildren and forty-ninegreat-grandchildren.
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Preston Franklin County Citizen
Preston, Idaho, US
Wed, Jan 05, 1927
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