DESEELHORST, Susan

DESEELHORST, CURKEET, JORDAN

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 11/18/2010 at 08:47:57

Octogenarian

Last Saturday, Sept. 15, Mrs. Susan DeSeelhorst reached the eightieth milestone. The event was duly celebrated by about forty friends who accepted the invitation of her daughters, Mrs. Curkeet and Miss Carrie DeSeelhorst, to a five o'clock tea. Just after tea had been served, W. H. Jordan, in behalf of the assembled guests, offered heartiest congratulations to Grandma on having completed four score years. One hardly realizes what 80 years means. James Monroe was serving his first term as president. She was yet a school girl of nine years when Geo. Stevenson exhibited his first steam engine and as for the telegraph and telephone they were not yet heard of.

Mrs. DeSeelhorst is the oldest member of the Presbyterian church. Already ten years of time has been loaned her and it is the hope of all that she may be spared many more. At the close of the brief words of hearty congratulation, Mr. Jordan presented, in behalf of friends, a nice leather upholstered rocker and other articles as slight tokens of the esteem in which she is held. Grandma surprised her friends by her feeling and appropriate remarks thanking all for these expressions of love and interest.

Mrs. DeSeelhorst has twice been a pioneer, first near Plattville, Wis. where she came from Pennsylvania, her native state, and last in Grundy and Hardin counties, where she has lived for nearly a quarter of a century.
--Grundy Republican.

--Eldora Herald (Eldora, Iowa), 22 September 1900