Dissmore 50th wedding Anniversary 1899

DISSMORE, LINDERMAN

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 2/10/2018 at 12:09:18

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer November 10, 1899, FP, C4

Mr. and Mrs. John Dissmore celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at their home, Crosier, N. D., the 30th of October. A good while, John, to live with a woman without quarreling. Sorry we can’t come.

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer December 12, 1899, LP, C5

FIFTY YEARS MARRIED
Mr. and Mrs. .John Dissmore Celebrate their Golden Wedding; at their Home In Crosier.
On Thanksgiving evening last nearly forty of the friends and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. John Dissmore met at their home in Crosier for the purpose of celebrating their Golden Wedding. The marriage ceremony making this couple one was performed at Capron Ill., Nov. 7, 1849. Mr. Dissmore being then but 24 and Miss Eliza Linderman not yet 16. They resided in Illinois until about 1870 when they removed to Iowa which they made their home until 1882. Mr. Dissmore came to Crosier where he took a homestead and brought his family there the following year, which numbers them among the pioneers of the county.
Their children were all with them for the occasion but two, a son in Minnesota and a daughter in Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Dissmore received many valuable and useful gifts from their children and friends, which will be highly prized by them as showing the love and esteem in which they are held.
Two very interesting letters were read by Supt. Hall, one from J. S. Metcalf and one from Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Day, both expressing regret at the unavoidable absence and wishing that the bride and groom might live to celebrate their Diamond Wedding. A bountiful repast was served during the evening and as the hour of midnight drew near the guests dispersed carrying with them many pleasant rememberances{sic} of the evening and wishing the bride and groom of fifty years many more happy years of married life. Nelson Co. Observer.
A private letter tells us that the children presented them with $60 in gold coin, one piece of $20 having been issued the year of their marriage. The old gentleman being an ardent friend of bimetallism, a free silver joke of twenty silver dollars was perpetrated upon them by a few of their friends and neighbors. Such jokes though rare, are not to be scoffed at.