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?r-anadarNOheildlorFamily Celebration.Three score and ten years of the life»of Geo. W. Harpold was passed Satur- j day, June 3rd, 1S82, at his residence, j A line dinner was prepared and his ebil- i dren were welcomed home. A cake was ihiovatve ! presented him bearing initials of hisanhejetname and date of birth, 1812. Two valuable # handkerchiefs were also given him. In the afternoon the company was entertained with vocal music. Be-‘h, j fore separating the aged parents with ve i children and grandchildren bowed ! around the family altar, while prayer : was offered in behalf of the assembledij by Rev. J. J. Patterson. The childreni then formed a line, according to their*! ages^ the father and mother stood beforeIj them, while the father addressed them j w sh jthus: “Children; your father is nowx-nn-wwS€nlt;alines ! old, and I feel that it is the last birthday j dio t i *n i I will ever spend on earth. I may seeU j I 'i some of you again at divers times butL;elbjEoftoarsi- j never expect to see you all again as I do ^ j this day, but the wav seems bright for J me ancl I ask each one of you to so liye ufc | that we may form an unbroken family | in heaven.” The father's feelings then gave way to grief while (deep soieminty j m rested upon the household. | thi-! Father Harpold was bora in West n* | Virginia. Ilis father with family sailed down the Ohio in a canoe “dug out’1 to mouth of the Wabash then steered up j this stream with poles, landing at Terre Haute in 182S. The family settled nearmren-erork-ofat8.flatwhere the village of Cloverlanti stands in Clay Co. There is one son and twowHmla«ththapdaughters of the “canoe family” still liv- j eging« j w(He was married at the age of twenty- j e(j six to Sarah Francis; she died two years after their marrirge, leaving a son. He afterwards married Mies Annary Taryin j who is now sixty years of age, He isni“hthfo]the father of sixteen children eleven oftessS-Et*w hom are living. The oldest forty-four,youngest sixteen years old. All are married except two,: He jias twenty-two grandchildren and one great \ child/ .{.i. . ' x .. , ■ 'tfrmiv :rmSt
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Brazil Register
Brazil, Indiana, US
Sun, Jan 08, 1882
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Vigo C.
IN, USA 04 May 2018
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