FARNES FAMILY REUNION

FARNES, SHOWER, MEYERS, PAINTER

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 12/28/2001 at 17:25:42

Leon Reporter
October l7, l894

The Clarinda Herald has the following account
of a pleasant reunion of
the FARNES family who lived in this county
years ago; "There was a jolly
reunion last Saturday at the home of HENRY
FARNES, in north Clarinda.
All the children living except three of MR.
and MRS. FARNES were present
for the first time in l7 years, and the
jolliest part of it is that none
of the sons or daughters knew that the others
would visit the old home
at the time they did, so that the reunion was
planned on short notice
and was a surprise all around.

Forty-seven sat down to dinner at the FARNES
mansion Saturday, the
company consisting of the father and mother;
all their children but
three, and over a score or more of
grandchildren. Besides the children
residing in Clarinda and vicinity, there were
present from abroad, MR.
and MRS. E. SHOWER, of Davis County, Iowa;
MR. and MRS. JOHN FARNES; MR.
and MRS. HENRY MEYERS; MR. and MRS. JOE
PAINTER, and MR. and MRS. ROBERT
FARNES, all of Kansas.

The reunion will long be a pleasant memory in
the minds of the
participants. The congratulations of their
host of friends are with MR.
and MRS. FARNES in thus being able to meet in
their old age their
children and grandchildren in happy reunion.
May they yet live many
years enjoying unbounded happiness."

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December 28, 200l