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ALMOST A HUNDRED.UOldest Lady iu**€lermout CelebratesBirthday Anuiversary iu BostonTalks Interestingly of Early Times andTells of Helping to Clear Land onwhich Homestead was Built.« .One hundred years ago, lacking one year, a pretty girl baby opened her eyes for the first time, on the banks of the broad and shining Miami river, near Milford. Her parents were Samuel and Margaret Galbraith, and their humble home was ditterent from the stately mansions that now grace the banks of the rlverJn that neighborhood. On Wednesday last, September 28, Mrs. Lucinda Marsh, the subject of this sketch, reached the 99‘b anniversary of her birth, and at her beautiful home In Boston, many friends were present to celebrate the event. The aged lady was queen of tho day, and sat enthroned In the midst of flowers, and surrounded by gifts of affection from loving frleods, who gathered about her and paid reverence to her gray hairs, her Worth as woman, wife and mother and the nobility of her nature. She talked to them with a perfection of language which the passage of years has made round and smooth.aud with graceful gesture and firm expression. She told of her home by the river, and her removal, after thedeath of her parents, to the home of a relative—Samuel Moore, near the William Glaucy home, on the Batavia and Boston road; told of her courtship with William Marsh, of the wedding day. of the humble cottage, decorated with wild flowers,clinging to the wild vines, and the sweet ceremony, performed with the Impressive zeal and reverence, belonging to the people of that day, by the quaint old Justice of the peace, who married them In the midst of the deep woods, while the voices of the song birds filled the air with thetmelodyof the grandest wedding march ever performed. After the marriage there was no bridal tour, save among the paths of the silent forests, which speedily the young couple began to clear for the building of a home. This was 78 years ago, and the two worked together, shoulder to shoulder. Then the passage of years brought children—strong
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The Clermont Courier
Batavia, Ohio, US
Wed, Oct 05, 1904
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