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urththerovothis bers One the pers bora cur-liort nft-1 byigh-em-:en-:en-A nother Couple Long Time Weddedtor-ndaloll*lastjck. tiko rl th?flllMiff:of-orsionsol!rsocssrholcsledlortsesllle,tad,thethe i a *oln :er-the in irs-llln-Has ion, ino »n. vras } a Its rn-1thb!cofee,es,3tseyildedllshoI y.sh:St30 u-I n, aatInn,►n,n,Intien-tStnd!C-Jd,ndheaao-d.reidt-a-lb,k-idesedaso-r-nshe'■MmsmrnmmmmMRS. S. L. CUTSIIALIjS. Ijt ClITSIIAIiliA-litlihe.fc-ty.SJ-y~r•V —•»E* •!•t *J-vttoMr. and Mrs. S. L. Cu tali nil, os toe me cl residents of Clay county and Spencer for more than fifty years, will observe their fifty-eighth wedding anniversary Saturday, ■March 10, 1028, at their home, Ninth and Miller avenue. No particular celebration lias been planned for tills memorable event, but Mr. and Mrs. Cutshall will bo happy to re-ceivo visits from their numerous friends here, while a number of their children from a distance plan to pay them a visit.Fifty-seven of these happy, wedded years together have been spent in Clay county. Samuel L. Cutshall and Miss Laura Jeanette Moyer were united in marrlugo March 10,1870, at Jessup, Iowa, and following their marriage they lived on a farm in Black Hawk county for a littlo more than a year, raising two crops on the Sunderland farm, ten ulles from Waterloo. After disposing of his personal property and with and outfit of two covered wagons, Mr. Cutshall and wife and son, Alvin, started for the west and located In Clny county in the full of1871. They made their claim for a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres in wlmt afterwards became Lake township.Moved to llomentciid In LukeThe winter of 1871 and 1872 was spent on the Jim Carver homestead west of Spencer and In the spring Mr. and Mrs. Cutshall moved to their homestead wliero they remained for eight years. In 1900 they purchased a homo In Dickens, residing there for nine years, und in 11) 15 they removed to Spencer where they have since been residents. Their first homo was located on Lender avenue whore they lived for three yeurs. Later, while Mr. Cutshall was taking care of the Methodist church of Spencer, they lived by the Lincoln Boys’ club on West Third street, for six months. A home on Fast Sixth street was later purchased but they remained thoro only tho short Interval of three- months, moving from that homo to the newly purchased home on Ninth and Miller avenue. After three years’ rcsldenco there they bought another homo on .West Park avenue where, they lived, for three years. Last . spring thpy returned to their former home where they are now living. ;Beginning with the earlier lives of both Mr. and Mrs. Cutshall, interesting facts concerning the early life of tho civil war veterans and tho early life of the homesteaders cun be easily gleaned. Mr. Cutshall was horn at Fort Wayne, Indiana, November 7, 1845, and Mrs. Cutshallwas born April 2, 1852, in the southern part of Ohio, six miles from the place where General U. S. Grant was born. Mr. Cutshall made , his home with his parents, Ell and Dorothy Cutshall, in Indiana until he was ten years of age, and then the trip westward was made to Buchanan county, Iowa. The trip was made with covered wagons and ox teams, and the journey lasted for two months. They located nine miles , west of the present location of In-j dependence, where they had pur-j chased one hundred and twenty ! acres of land. The father had gone i ahead in the fall and his family i joined Ljm in the spring.JfjuJUitrd In the Civil War'y.r years Mr. Cutshallwrxvi t.zi hie father's farm, until :.•* •, JH3, When the great vi* etL'ed to thousands of pa-ir-vt-v a”.£ Jvyal cons of the country. ifr. C'J'.sl'-all enlisted with-.vp'i.ny b, Fourth Iowa Cavalry,- in service twenty-two.to.ontr.Ji ir.*i eight days.He vra» discharged from active Jtervlce August 1865. at Atlanta,/ft*Georg;a. Before the clo^e of the war. when news of Lee’s surrender had been made known, General Wilson at once sent a cavalry of over 30,000 strong to go to Anderson-villc to capture the rebel officers in charge of the prison there. All had fled when they reached the prison.After the war Mr. Cutshall returned to his home in Buchuuuu coifnty und helped his father on tho farm. In the spring of I860, when he was twenty years of age, Mr. Cutshall faced the problems of the world on his own responsibility for four years, then having accumulated a reasonable competency, he was united In marriage in 1870.Mrs. Cutshull’s early life was spent in Ohio, where she attended school, until when fourteen years of age, she moved to Jackson county, Iowa, with her parents, who moved to Jessup, Iowa, two years later. Ten Children Horn to Them Ten children were born to tho union of Mr. and Mrs. Cutshall, nine of whom are living. They uro: Alvin Cutshull of Spencer, Mrs. A. W. Johnson (Ruby) of Comrade, Montana, Frod Cutshall of Los Angeles, California, Samuel Guy Cutshall of Spencer, Hay Cutshall of Los Angelos. California. Eugene Cutshall of east of Terril, Miss Inez Cutshall of Spencer, Mrs. Pearl Perni-i -itr-3-t-0-t-r-mr,r.JOtsid.litismtsisll.Methodist church of Spencer.A few years ago an interesting biographical sketch of Mr. Cutshall, written by II. S. Jones of Spencer, appeared In The News-Herald, extracts of which will be of Interest to many who failed to read the account previously given.Sketches from Hto History'•The groat Civil war was on, and Mr. Cutshall enlisted” .... -'and went to Camp McClellan at Davenport, Iowa. They drilled three or four months before embarking for Vicksburg, where ho remained four months doing scout duty.”While stationed at Vicksburg, •Mr. Cutshall’s regiment under General Sherman went on an expedition to Canton where a battle was fought and the rebels defeated. From Vicksburg Mr. Cutshall, with his scouting brigade, went to Memphis where they were reunited with the veterans of tho Fourth cavalry and assigned to the second brigade of tho Cavalry division of tho 16th Army Corps. On tho 30th of April, 1864, tho Fourth Cavalry took up their march from Memphis to Bolin, Mississippi, reaching there May 4, expecting to fight with General Forest’s forces, but found he had retreated to tho Interior of Mississippi.””In August, 1864, Mr. Cutshall was again stationed at Memphis when the enemy under Genera! Forest made a surprise raid on the city and reached the center of cho city before the Union troops rallied and drove him out. General Washburn, then In command, was taken so suddenly by surprise he escaped in his nightrobe to Fort Pickering to avoid being captured.”More Incidents of the War On tho 21st of December, 1864, Mr. Cutshall’s regiment with threethousand cavalry under General Grierson left Memphis for Vicksburg. On the march they came across four hundred hogs fattening for the Rebel army. Tho o was n way of i rur-sporting the hogs north to be made use of by iho Un’ot army, so orders were given to destroy all the hogs und pile them up and burn them. The last hog was destroyed by the soldiers and while they were burning, six hundred Hebei soldiers were marched past and viewed the destruction*?“At Macon, Georgia,' saw Mr. Cutshall, “a Hebei officer approached the Union lines under a flag of truce and informed the Union general that Lee had surrendered, to Grant, and that the war was at an end. The Union general Informed the officer that„Jie was not taking orders from tho enemy and ordered the officer to get his men dut of Columbus, which was promptly obeyed. But the news of the assassination of . Lincoln, said Mr. Cut-shall, came from the enemy before it reached the army through the Union news service. The war was drawing to an end and the lost battle was fought at Columbus, Mississippi, August 8, 1865.”“A few of the battles in which Mr. Cutshall was engaged were at Montevel, March 30, 1865; Six -Mile Cieek, the 31st; and at Ebenezer Church the same day; April 3, Selma, Alabama; Tupelo, Mississippi, April 8th; Columbus, Mississippi, the last battle of the Civil war.”Tells of the “Sunless Years”In his sketch Mr. Jones tells of the eight years of toil and privation and of the sunless and starless winter of 1880 and 1881, which was “so named because it snowed so much of the time and was cloudy all of tho time. The sun rarely shone and the nights were starless. Snow fell on the night of October 11, 1880, six inches deep, and continued to fall off and on until May. Farmers couldn't wajt for tho snow to go off and sowed their grain on top of the snow by hand, stumbling along, boot-top deep In snow!”In summary Mr. Jones writes and pays high tribute to this worthy couple, ’’During Mr. Cutshall’s residence In Lake township ho held the office of trustee, school director, assessor, and was the first school treasurer of Lake township, holding that office for fifteen years.”Looking back over a panorama of fifty some years of trials, disappointments and achievements of life, their reward is their home surrounded with plenty of tho necessities of life, the unbounded respect of their friends, not only for their splendid citizenship, but also for tho silent gratitude In the knowledge that Mr. Cutshall us soldier of the Civil war faced Itebel bullets In playing his part to maintain an unbroken Republic.”Numerous friends In the community will join In extending bestwishes und congratulations to thisworthy couple, Mr. and Mrs. Cutshull. in their observance and celebration- of their fifty-eighth wedded years together next week.-N.-H__MflLeague Entertained Tuesday—Tho Schunemann home northwe ........ r* *-euri Be- of Spencer was tho scene of an oiMrs Pffi A1UU! , Ant'eIes’ ,md Joyuble party last Tuesday evenlrLm° Davison of near niHn-n* when tho Misses Lyla and Esth-Schucnemann presided us hostessi to tho members of the Wulth. League of tho English Lutherc church of Spencer and invitt friends. Fifty assembled to spot: an evening devoted to conversatlc and the playing of games until i u lute hour, when a delicious luncl eon was served by the hostesses ai slated by their sister, Mrs. Els Pothast. The Wulther Leagimembers have many pleasunt gatl crings and tho event Tuesday wt no exception.Mrs. Effio Davison of near Dickens, Iowa.Two years ago the members of Annett Post No. 124 of the Grand Army of the Republic honored Mr. Cutshull In electing him as their commander. He has been a member of the Spencer organization for more than fifteen years and Ills wife has also been a member of the Womans Relief Corps. There are fourteen members of Annett Post G. A. R., nine of whom reside in Spencer. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cut-ure members of the Graceshall
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