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MR. A.ND MRS J.' N. PL'ER'ARTY.'•hIttVliRDAJLE, .Sept. IS.—Mr! a,nlt;Z+t|ea on the Osage Indian reserva-- „ . . u r ^ '__ tirtt.'aqMrs. .T. X. Fifthsrty. whose, picture appears above, “are residents oE Kiv-erdale and were the center of attraction'at a recent gathering of relatives ami friends at the Oddfellows'hull In niverdale. ’ The occasion was their fifty-flfU wedding anniversary- Mr- Flehurly is in bis 85 th year and his good wife is in her SOUi... ..Yet. they arc -both hale and hearty and quite active. Wli'eri the ■wedding march was being played theyled in the 'grand march followed bythe sixty or morn relatives and friends present. Then, standing before the officiating clergymanRev.F, A. Zeller, they responded with much alacrity when he asked, if they wore, willing to Jive together yet a little .while longer. And'the en-. tints I: ism with„.whlch the groom sa- nry of some luted ilic bride was the occasion ofmuch ■ admiration as writ as rnui-ri-mGnt. ■Mr. FJolmrty is a native of Illinois.He wtin horn near Uulf^burg,'\Fclx 14. 1836. Durtng the .Civil War he was-'it me m b e r • b £ Company P.“Fifteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, pcrvinff until incapacitated, ...under Colonel * David Sewird. Hft was in the battle of Shiloh and was with Sherman on his march to the sea.Recently Mr. Floharty and his good wjfo made a trip to. Pasadena for the express purpo.se of visiting- his old captain, Rov. MrL. Handy of 11 tf Glorktta street. '. Captain . Handy Is now 00 y*arn of age and is still .actively engaged in preaching the r gospel, filling a pulpit regularly once I cadi' month In one of tho mission I churches of Pasadena, j. Mrs*. Floharty i* a Missourian by birth but moved to Illinois - when a little child, She' was married to Mr. Fleharty In lSfch Two or three yours later tho young couple moved to^th© vicinity of Winfield, Kansas,tion. r There were some lively times In that country in those days Tor Indian fighting is-not without clanger and sometimes all* the white settlers were compelled to take to the bari-citefi for safety. But In time the government bought the reservation and moved tho Indians to their present reservation in Oklahoma. Then Mho squatterg got. title to their land-Am id theSo surroundings and in these- - stirring- - times- ...the.. Fleharty.. faritily of a dozen children were born and partly reared.Jn IS92 the family moved to Fresno and four years, later located at RJverdale inhere they have since resided, first on a farm two miles east of town but for the past seven years in the town itself.Mr. Fieharty etiU keeps an api-si?:c and -is considered quite a her-man. He drives a Ford and may he seen on the road almost every day. Mrs. FI chart y In also well'able to do all her own housework and- keeps quite a fine gar cteii.‘ TrTvTTTitldreii who iviuc hr attP*W:Imin m\vVwCh:WXsiJC11Hdi3u0t ______ ;viuein- -attgrnance at the anniversary celebration are:.,. George' Floharty of Rahway; Frank Fleharty of Meridian; Jesse Fteharty of Manzenar; Bert Fle-hany of Monterey: Benjamin Fle-Ixarcy Qt Tracey; Fred and William Flehnrty and Mrs. Alice Splawn of Rivordale: Mrs. Mattie Fisk of Herv-don; Oscar Kleharty of Kaw City.*- ^ — - rhnd~’lifnelt;T‘ ffie’squatters “who set-Oklahomn, and Mrs. D. T. Kitchen | ‘'of. Arkansas City, Kansas# ore also children of Mr. and Mrs. Fleharty. One son. Cay ford, died a year, and, a half ago. IT is home Was near Riv-erchtle, .The families of the ’ child en and quite a number of grandchildren and great-garndchihlron wc*rlt;r also present i.t the celebration besides, a number of other friends. A great feast and a pleasant social afternoon were erioyetl-Tby-alh-^' —........
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Fresno Morning Republican
Fresno, California, US
Sun, Sep 19, 1920
Page 15
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