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Fifty Six Years of Happy Wedded Life Celebration
The sixty three lineal family record details the fifty six years of married life of Samuel Calderwood and Elizabeth Shields celebrated in Canoe township rochester mills on June 23. Their three sons Millipim Robert Scott joined by families surprised them with a lawn picnic and neighbor gathers numbering seventy five. Guests shared a harvest dinner, prayers, and songs as four generations of Calderwoods posed for photos. Samuel, born in 1848 in County Tyrone Ireland, came to America with his father in 1848 and now is 81. He married Elizabeth Shields on June 28, 1859. she was born April 26, 1842 in Canoe township. The celebration closed with blessings and farewells as the crowd departed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Calderwood
Elizabeth
Shields
Calderwood
Canoe
Millipim
Robert
Trochester Mills
Scott
Kane
Good
Rockbridge
America
County Tyrone
Ireland
Elizabeth Shields
George Shields
Canoe Township
Scott Calderwood
George Calderwood
John Calderwood
R. S. Calderwood
Lee Verna Calderwood
Milligan Calderwood
Ralph Calderwood
William Calderwood
J. §. Colgan
Hannah Wood
Bert Wood
G. W. Wood
Oliver Wood
M. W. Wood
Gwendolyne Wood
Isaac Wood
Alice Wood
D. W. Alderton
A. S. Work
J. M. Thompson
R. H. Work
Grant Mauk
Harry Mauk
L. A. Phillips
B. M. Crawford
Clark Work
A. J. States
John Galentine
T. M. Fleming
Elizabeth Sheesley
Austin Bowers
Charlie Bowers
Lee Verna Bowers
Ida Pierce