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plt;RP'DwwSiGoldea We44ia| la Crawford County—014 Settlers.Tbe first golden wedding ever celebrated in Crawford county took place at tbe residence of Mr. Oliver Leavenworth, near Leaven worth, on Wednesday evening last. The parties celebrating this fiftieth anniversary ot wedded life were Mr. Zebulon Leavenworth, aged seventy-nine years, and bis wile Margaret, aged sixty-nine.At tbe dinner party, given on Wednesday at noon, to the members of tbe family and a number ol the old citizens of the place, Mr. Leavenworth arose, and in a voice full of feeling and emotion, gave a brief history in verse of the lile of himself and wife during the past fifty years. The poem was full of pathos and sublime thoughts, and when tbe aged gentleman r«*jc, sumed his seal every eye was suffused withrebdnBC(Ktears. Mr. L. stated that be and bis wife C1oatlhad lived together fifty years, and during! tbat long period not a single harsh word I had passed between them. After the din-j® ner, to which fully a hundred guests, including tbe Leavenworth family, sat down, a Urge number of beautiful and costly wedding presents, consisting of gold watcbe*,! d chains, rings, thimbles, and innumerable •' other articles of gold, were displayed for in-, t spection.Mr. L. (from whom the town of Leavenworth derived its name) first settled in; # Crawford county in 1821, and since that time be has been engaged in business, either in the mercantile trade or (arming. Mr. L. and his lady are both in excellent health, and bid fair to live to celebrate their dia- lt;fc roond wedding twenty-five years hence. . t — i tP
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New Albany Daily Ledger
New Albany, Indiana, US
Wed, Jan 18, 1871
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