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Mr. and Mrs. George Swift of Forestville Spent Six YearsForesiville, March 12—Mr. and Mrs. George- Swift or this place i observed the fiftieth anniversary ol their marriage with a reception of friends and relatives at their Bennett road home - Sunday. The anniversary of their wedding fell on Monday.George Swift and Miss Helen Warner were united in marriage on March 11, 1890 at Hamlet. Alter a wedding attended by. many friends they boarded a.train at South Dayton ■. arid went tofarm which they bouzht for.$1.25 an acre after' they had. ■' lived lor seven years- They had a dairy farm which, they, bought for. a 51-25 a. acre, after: they, had lived on, the. farm; for. six months. There Were rio'roads .then, only- trails. A mound, on the ground, represented a four comer;, four holes in the ground a mile and two holes a % mile. . They had the experience of going through , cyclones, prairie fires, droughts and-floods.-A; son,Warner, was bom in 1B94: In 1895 they moved' back to Hamlet, where they lived for f Only one year. They .then bought a- farm on the Hulbert road in Forestville* where they lived lor 23 -years.-A second son. Otis, waj bom m 110#. In 1920 they sold their farm-anc. ;imoved to where their residence is l: now on Bennett road.In South Dakota.
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Dunkirk Evening Observer
Dunkirk, New York, US
Tue, Mar 12, 1940
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