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CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDRENLaHELP MR. AND MRS. GOWELLaOBSERVE 60TH ANNIVERSARYSIVMr. and Mrs. A. C. Cowell ofMillerton, married lt;10 years, came Saturday to the home ot their i daughter, Mrs. Etta Harrell, 81S east lister street, to attend the celebration of their wedding anni I versarv Sunday by their children, i grandchildren and great grandchildren, gathered to the number oi75.The day was spent in visiting and enjoyment of a wedding dinner. graced by a wedding cake of white and gold, enough to afford a piece for each of the large company. There was ! no lack of subjects for conversation for this was a reunion of members of the family, some of whom had come a long distance tobe present.Wife in Feeble Health.Mrs. Go well, unfortunately, is infeeble health and confined most of I the time to a wheeled chair, hut ‘ Mr. Cowell lias stood the buffetving of the years remarkably well and has gathered along the way a store of experience and ohsrrvao ] lions that make him a moat interesting conversationalist.The celebration wa»s not only oi hi.s wedding but of his 83rd birthday, his span of years covering mighty changes in the civilizedworld. %A native of Maine, he enlisted |with the 11th Maine volunteer n»g-| iment and was mustered in as a soldier in the Civil war Oct. 8. ISfU. a lad of 15. and served to the end of the war. As it is vita most Civil war veterans, his memories of those davts are among the clearest and most, otirring of hi. life and he pictures events of that } time with a vividness that (*oai)lesj his heavers to visualize thfem ashe do escPioneered on Homesteads.Til istih he was married to Miss (Continued on page 8, col. 1.)
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Ludington Daily News
Ludington, Michigan, US
Tue, Sep 03, 1929
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