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No ranter Mm* hftf* ever b*en made betDespite Their 144Years, Aged CoupleTake Marriage VowsRomance, ltegnn at Sunday MtfMngi,With Jolm Swope, 79, and Mr*.Hi lard, 65, a* Principal*, (Eliminate* in Wedding.in the hearts of the 79-vcar-o!d swain and Sft-year-old damsel a strong mutual regard. So It wr*f» only natural that a few weeks ago Swope should for the second time In his life muster up courage tn “pop the question” to Mrs. Illlanl.Mrs. Hllnrd failed to murmur, “This Is so sudden. John.” hut she did give her consent to an early marriage. So at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon Swope a climbed the long stairway leading to the office of .Tttatice of the Peace. Karll.• Coilld Judge Earl I arrange to marry a j couple in an hour? Being told his request was reasonable. Hwopp inquired could he perform the ceremony for a man ?9 years old and a woman K5 years old. A similar reply, after the Justice of the peace recovered his composure, was greeted with n warm handshake and an order to forthwith arrange I he preliminary details.One hour later John S. Swope, 79 years old. and Mrs. S. K. Hllnrd. Hft years old.were again united In marriage. Thebridesmaid was a 17-year-old granddaughter of Mrs. Swope, nee Hilard.A man is said to be as old as he feels j and a woman as old as she looks John S. Swope of No, 1420 Jackson avenue, Is 7ft year* old. Mrs K. K. Hilard confesses to ♦/ summers and a* many winter*.I When the venerable couple met, nve,] and flirted, at the tabernacle during the ; Sunday meetings last winter neitherheeded the other's gray hair, nor thewrinkles which Father Time had left in their faces. Tt mattered not to Swope tha4 he had lived with his first wife fifty-one years, nor to Mrs. Hilard that she was the mother of several children and that one of her grandchildren la 17 years old. •John Ft. Swope at the age of 7ft was not a Lothario, albeit he began to woo Mrs. Hilard as ardently a.a he did thefirst Mra. Swope when she was arrayed inthe hoopskirts they wore in antebellum data. Hardly an evening passed when neighbors failed to notice Swope enter or leave the Hillard home. And. as Ills visits became more frequent; there sprang tipn i*
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Joplin Daily Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Fri, Jun 03, 1910
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