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1-lilIsIIIr.h:»rirr-t-* * ,otSOt,it.rtiln;iyf-iisI,fJOOfofre as tii ii r It. to totilofn-jyVOtil111yinmiofiatonn-toi is:ulI nan pure goiu, aim rannuL uu |mioimoi:iiby it.Mr. Vincent then gave place to Itev. J. Ii. Walker, one of the guests, who in a few brief anil cheering words, referred to past events in the lite of Mr. and Mrs. iMlton, dwelling largely upon his knowledge of departed members of the family. lie, in iuni, was followed by Rev. N. lt;’. Mel Jill, pa-lor of the United Presbyterian church at Richland, Rush Co., Ind., who had hoen assigned Die duty of presenting to Mrs. Patton a handsome pair of gold frame spectacles. The drift oi his remarks was to show that in the journey of man ic 1 life, it is far too true that Die good deeds of the companion who occupies the position of a faithful wile and mother are lost sight of; and lie claimed for Mrs. i’atton, as for all true wives, at least a liberal sliaro of praise for whatever .success may have crowned the cll'orts ol llfty years of married life for Mr. and Mrs. Patton.Nelson W. Kvans, Ksq., a relative and noted attorney, of Portsmouth, Ohio,who was present, then spent a few minutes by way of a brief history of the I’atton family, dating hack into the seventeenth century, and tracing them down from generation to generation, until he reached the closing years ot Mr. Nathaniel I'at ton’s mother; here he digressed to read her will, made a short time before her death, calling the attention of the friends to the excellent traits of character in the life of this departed mother,indicated in the will by tlio careful disposition of her earthly means, and the very kind and alVeetionate manner in which she remembered nil iter friends in her dying hours. Continuing his remarks in the same lino of thoughts, lie brought the hundred and lifty friends. who hoard him, to that memorable day of May 21st, 18:15, when Nathaniel i’atton and ft I tea Duncan were united in marriage.They began housekeeping hut a few hundred yards from wiiere they now live, in a small log hut, then in the woods. Something more than forty years ago they built the house and moved to it, where they live to-day.Of the seven children born to them, live are living, and with the exception of one daughter, Mrs. May Stewart, of Dciiyer, Cj!., they were present with their parents Thursday.Mr. Kvans close 1 his remarks by presenting the father and mother an autograph album, from the llrst page of which lie read a request from the donors that each person present on the occasion would place his autograph in its pages whereby Mr. and Mrs, Patton might remember them as a body.It i~ useless to add that Die day was an enjoyable one, and that it will long be pleasantly remembered by all who participated.
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Greensburg Saturday Review
Greensburg, Indiana, US
Sat, May 23, 1885
Page 3
Full Page
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