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—Court**:. The G*'tt5burs TimciMR. AM) MRS. J. AUGUSTUS TAWNEY| Mr. and Mrs. J. Augustus Tawncy. ! both of them 85 years old. last Sat-i urday observed quietly the sixty-! lourtli anniversary of their wedding | at their home in GettysburgMr Tawney. who has served for j nearly 20 years as street commis-. sioner and superintendent of sewers i for Gettysburg borough, and Mrs. Tawney were married December 6. 1877. at Littlestown by the late Rev j J. A. Metzgar. then pastor of St. John’s and Grace Luheran charge.They started housekeeping in Em-milsburg. where they carried on a baking industry successfully for more than two years and then moved to Gettysburg in 1880 where they continued the same business for nearly a quarter of a century. Since 1923. Mr. Tawney has been ill the employ of the borough continuously with the upkeep of streets and alleys his uiain assignment.Both in Good Health Mr. Tawney served in that department when H nude the transition from :i lorsc-diawn cart (o the first truck.Both Mr and Mis Tawncy are in good health Hiid recall clearly events of their childhood. Both wre children at the ace of seven when Ihe battle ol Gettysburg occurred and forced their families to leave their homes lor safer quarters, south of town.Mr Tawney. who Is a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Z. Taw-ney, recalls that he and other members of his family went to Gettysburg from their home at Wolf hill to visit an uncle who was a , Union soldier While there they were warned of the neax approach of the Confederates. They walked to the farm of Newton Durboraw more than a mile east of Two Taverns from where they could hear the sound of the three-day conflict.After the battle they returned home to find their dwelling partly demolished and robbed of food andclothingPled From Home Burins BattleMrs Mary Tawney. who is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Barbehenn, was the eldest of three small children left behind with their mother when Mr Barbehenn joined the Army. The mother and the three small children fled from their home on Breckenridge street on the first day of the battle to find shelter at the Peter Thom residence located at the Evergreen cemetery. From there they went farther south along the Baltimore 'pike where they remained until after the battle. At tire house where they were given shelter, bread was baked continually to supply the need of refugee townfolk and soldiers.After seveial attempts to return to Gettysburg ;lic little family succeeded only to find their home shell lornMr. ami Mrs. Tawney arc the parents of uve children. two or whom are living They are Mrs. Caroline Pretz. Gettysburg, and Mrs. N. 6. Wolf. Bloonvsburg. There are five grandchildren: David A. Tawney, a clerk at the Gettysbiu-g postofflce; Miss Mary L. Pretz. Buford avenue, an instructor in music in several school districts in the county; Mrs. Ralph Strevig. Hagerstown, Maryland; the Rev. J. Louis Wolf, pastor of the Redeemer Lutheran church m Toledo. Ohio, and the Rev. Richard C Wolf, xiow taking postgraduate work at Yale university. New Haven. Connecticut.There also aic two great-grandchildren; E. Jane Strevig. of Hagerstown. and Mary Joanne Tawney. West Middle street.; to supervise | shall also t* ! ports to the J court, upon I concerning * i dent of a ! under the ju superintende It shall a the county preparation, terprctation promotion o directed by ' entMiss Warr logical exar special edult; public schoo! perience in I Darby, Broo: has diploma cational Scl State Teach institution s of bachelor * was given 1 PdnnsylvanifDmClarence * township dir new preside emllng Joh wick townslt ond vice-pn year. B. E. : township, ii president.The boarc standing cor, annual con’ school direc Gettysburg 1 16. Metnbeicommittee :Hamlltonbar enluber. B’ Peters. Tyro Bair. Berw: Hershey. Yc C W her ley, men were n; committee: 1 land townsl Mt. Jov tnwi
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Gettysburg Star and Sentinel
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Dec 13, 1941
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