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Btnlon Coyrily Vtttpon 1 And His | FI Wlf# Hav* Halp^d in Do* volopmtnt of Thio ! Croat 8Ut«Tha golden wedding’ auntvdrsary i\Qt Air, and Mrs. Joseph Owen* wua fittingly observea In the family I hums in lignum cmuuy, four und one* half milea from muo, on Kvl-day* November S«,Attending from Cedar Rapids wasMrgt John Tufts and hot' non, John.Jl'cJoseph Owens wan born In tho state Mf Pennsylvania and be Coro luwii was admitted to the union ho biH?arn» n resident herot As n young buy he rame west and located with hte family In Msbon, Kitty-two years ago he changed his pinna of s residence fmm Menton cmmty to Msuon, which (nr a number of years was the homo of the Qwstm family,A?* iha rail oamo for volunteer* to sffvs in the slvil war* Joweph Owen* shouldered hte vnushst and loft Mtt-hon to fight far freedom, At UU*Htne Im whs hut nineteen years of .Searing the utmm of the wur f[na received n wound to one of his ! limbs a nit his Injuries were Hindi 1 that ha was unable to rejoin hl» emu party.Two years previous to his marriage, he pupehAtml the farm anrl boMt the home which has sheltered the family fop all these y*mrw. Mrs.* | tMveim before her mn it In we wn« j At Us fltith Ann fleett and woo hornj.|in M^haHlusvUler Her parent* % were Air, ami ,\tm. Prior titoott. irn-, i mediately following her marring* to ijilMssph Owsws they went at ones - i to the Ip farm home, The Owen* ;. Fimm*3t«;H| wus built oioso to the ;,rp*t.u which run* ihroutfh the farm , i land ami there stilt remains to hr *; vestiges of the trail which led lifmm Cedar IbipUU to Vinton and !T: a very prairie schooner which trnv-; ehol between fhnao two towns pa«a-the Owens* doorway.To Mm anion were horn six oh!I* dran. all »*f whom am living, there havimf hpstt no break In the family. The children are, John A, Ow whs, residing ten miles nurthWHHt of(Cedar Hnphtes Mrs, Harry Hagen,■ who resales near Atkinsl OhiirloH I Albert gwens, who live* a short = :tn*mmro from Hh**||slmrgs Joseph* Kvereu invena, *m\r Polo; MlHft Al» 2|m» VI Mwena, at home, nml AT oh. X! John W Tufts, iwa t: ovemm. Cleft I dnr tliipMsc Them are also fifteenKfnMMichihlren ami one great grandchild, Mary KtUnheth Klnlmr, the V;omg doubter of Mr, nod Mrs. CtUfS: rishop of Plumas, Mnimdu, p The Hohlfon ami nraodohlklron ‘J I gathered in uwens home nndnt*; noon a dinner was served, the guostn ? I hsHUP Soatpd lit two long lUlilen in f iths dlfMFig ivomt The dining tables Mwffa Mmtrated in the gold and hj white paifip nuhnmo, with muer-pmvea of la rye houquots or ypltnw rhry«iin!hMmnm?i, Tonsfs worn given hy the and Mr, and Mrs,Mwens were tim recipients of u number of gold gifts FoMovvtng the dinner and presentation, of ute elfls.'the remainder of | the tune was spent socially, the y i young folk present pimkdpmlng in if ’ n pfMgram musle and wumea und j|at th^ close «arh guest wished Mr, iiiWhti Aira fisvens many more years* i of life together.
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The Evening Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Sat, Nov 30, 1918
Page 2
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