GOLEDN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - MR. & MRS. TOM WILLIAMS

WILLIAMS, MYERS, TENNEY, STOUT, BRUNER, RYAN, VANDERFLUGHT, MCGAHNEY, PRIEST, DUNCAN, BENDER, STORY, DEWHIRST, HILL

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Date: 2/8/2002 at 21:04:09

Decatur County Journal
November l2, l9l4

Sunday, November 8, at the home of MR. and
MRS. TOM WILLIAMS, of Burrell
Township, was the scene of a pleasant
surprise, the event being their
fiftieth wedding anniversary when their
children, newphews, nieces and
friends to the number of seventy-three, took
possession of their home
with well-filled baskets. The day being
ideal, a picnic dinner was
enjoyed on the lawn where they were all
seated around the bountiful
spread.

MR. and MRS. WILLIAMS were married at
Dubuque, Ia., November 8, l864 and
lived there two years, coming to Decatur
County, Iowa, in l866, when
their eldest son was a small baby, and have
lived on the place now their
home thirty-eight years the 2lst of last
February.
MR. WILLIAMS is 73 years of age and his wife
7l. They are both hale and
hearty, and enjoyed the surprise immensely.
MRS. WILLIAMS played and
sang the hymn "Mary to the Savior's Tomb",
two verses through without a
tremble in her voice, which is remarkable for
one of her age. Several
useful presents were thankfully received by
them.

All their six sons and fourteen
grandchildren, consisting of ED
WILLIAMS, wife and two daughters; FRANK
WILLIAMS, wife and two children;
TOM WILLIAMS and daughter, (MRS. WILLIAMS not
being able to come); DAN
WILLIAMS, wife and three children; GEORGE
WILLIAMS, wife and daughter;
MILT WILLIAMS, wife and five children, all of
Decatur County were
present. Also MR. and MRS. DAN MYERS and
son; MR. and MRS. CHARLES
TENNEY and daughter; MR. and MRS. WILL STOUT
and three children; MR. and
MRS. WILL BRUNER and son; MR. and MRS. FRED
BRUNER and son; MR. and MRS.
PERRY BRUNER and son; MR. and MRS. LIGE RYAN
and three sons; MR. CLERK;
AMOS VANDERFLUGHT. Those from a distance are
MR. and MRS. ED MCGAHNEY,
of Kellerton; MR. and MRS. JOHN PRIEST and
family, of Shannon City;
ELWOOD BRUNER, of Osceola; MRS. J.M. DUNCAN,
of Des Moines; MR. and MRS.
HENRY BENDER, of Dubuque; MRS. STORY and
MESSRS. ROSY and MORY DEWHIRST,
of Ottumwa; JOHN DEWHIRST, of Waterloo;
PIERCE HILL, of Borhuh, Minn.

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