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AIMr. and Mrs. S. L. Gable The Celebrants.MANY FRIENDS ARE PRESENT.Beautiful Gifts and Many Friends Make Glad Their Fiftieth Anniversary.On Tuesday June 12th Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Gable celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their happy wedded life. They are among the most respected of our pioneer citizens and scores of friends took occasion to call upon them and extend congratulations.l’he weather was ideal for the golden wedding. Upon the lawn a platform had been built, trimmed in golden colors and decorated with flowers of the same hue. Upon the platform sat the bride and groom in two of the most comfortable chairs of leather that their proud and happy children could secure. Mrs. Gable the bride was in white and many claimed the time honored custom of kissing the bride, as they tendered their sincere congratulations.The eight sons and one daughter stood near by in a receiving line and it was with great pleasure that the friends greeted as fine a family group as it has ever been our lot to see, all children to be proud of.Nearby in the June sunshine played the grand children, a winning little group. In the parlor the gifts were displayed, a beautiful china dinner set, a clock, knives, forks, spoons and silver set, all beautiful and costly gifts in honor of the day. The parlors were decorated in roses. The dining room had yellow decorations and the room was profusely trimmed in green and with flowers.The refreshments were very nice and were served by the Misses Town, Kelly, Marshall, Raine and Gillmor. The favors were bows of yellow ribbon.Mr. Thuresson presented the silver given by the members of the M. E. Church in a very beautiful and touching address.Take it all in all it was a delightful day in which the friends shared Mr. and Mrs. Gable’s happiness withthem. Such days are the rare milestones of happiness.At the happy reunion were gathered all the children of the worthy couple. They are, Byron, who is in the real estate business at Harting-ton, Neb., George who is a travelling representative of the \V. O. W. with headquarters at Council Bluffs, Ida, Mrs. Cyrus Greek of Genoa, Neb. Walter,a farmer and stockman of Plainview, Neb., Lewis M. who is practicing law at Wagoner, S. D., S. L. Jr. who is deputy clerk and auditor at Wheeler, S. D., E. E. who is farming near Lyman, S. D., Mearl 1. who is -pastor of the Methodist church at Panama, Iowa and Chas. H. who is attending college at Lincoln, Neb.a great reader and has always taken a keen interest in the affairs of county, state and country.He has been a life long republican and faithful member of the Methodist church. As a boy having no one but mother Nature tor a teacher he became an apt pupil as all who know of his knowledge of animals, birds, insects, trees,flowers,etc,will testify. Like all of the frontieresmen he loved to hunt and fish and these pursuits aided in providing for a large family for his father died shortly after moving to Iowa, leaving a large family.It fell upon the young lad’s shoulders to help the mother provide for the family in their frontier home.Mr. S. L. Gable was born in York county, Penn., in 1831. His parents were Germans, who had settled in Pennsylvania in an early day. The father was a strong energetic man, having the persevering, honest and sturdy character that has made the German settlers in this country such a power for good.The mother had the same character-istics'.as the father and was a strikingly handsome woman when young.Mr. Gable’s parents moved to Denison when lie was twelve years old. This makes Mr. Gable a continuous resident of Iowa for sixty three years.(There were no schools in Iowa then I and what education he has acquired , has been since he became a man, he | being his own teacher. He becameDeath came and robbed the home of five members in one year, still they struggled on. Three brothers had found a place to work after a tramp of fifty miles but this was for meager wages.Mr. Gable killed his first deer when fourteen years old. He always managed to keep the larder supplied with game, there being an abundance of this in southern Iowa at this time. Deer, wild turkey, ducks and geese furnished the young mimnxl with fine sport.After a few years the mother married again and Mr. Gable then a young man went to Black Hawk countyWhen in a reminisent mood he cantell of many tests of strength and skill at log-rollings and wrestling bouts for nature had endowed this young man with a powerful physique of which he was justly proud and which enabled him to withstand all the hardships of frontier life.While working in Black Hawk county he first met Miss Asenath Hampton, then a girl of fifteen years. Like young Gable this girl although young in years seemed much older than she was for she too had early been a pupil of life’s great teacher, experience. She was born in Virginia in 1.S40. The first one of her ancestors of whom she has any account was Joseph Hampton who is said to have come over with William Penn. Her grandfather John Hampton married a Miss Betts who was a descendent of the Cory family of Scotland. Her father Cory Hampton married Emily Watlon. Her ancestors, as far as known, all belonged to the Quaker church and several were ministers. In recalling some family history Mrs. Gable says “In those days nearly all heavy farm work was done with oxen. Horses were scarce and highly prized. My mother had a tine horse which was a great favorite of the family. She would mount this horse, take a babe in her arms, place one child on the gentle animal’s neck, and take the other two children up behind her and thus ride to church or to call on a neighbor. ” She tells of how her mother,unused to hardships,braved all the privations of a frontier life in Ohio. Her father was a physician and well adapted for his profession though there was but little in the practice of medicine in those days. At last the patient loving mother after a short illness, died, eaving her sorrowing children but by her influence in life she had left them a rich legacy which has always remained with them. Mrs. Gable was but nine years old at this time. The breaking up of the home followed the death of the mother and Mrs. Gable found a home with an old uncle and aunt and here on a farm surrounded by the grand old forests of Ohio, she attended school, rambled among the woods and read and studied and became happy in this peaceful Quaker home.“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” appeared in one of the magazines, this she was wont to read to her uncle and aunt. Her uncle would become very excitedI Continued on latefll
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Denison Review
Denison, Iowa, US
Thu, Jun 14, 1906
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