Twenty-fifth Anniversary

RANSAM, HELPHREY, FORBES

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 10/14/2012 at 17:43:43

Wm. J. and Melissa Helphrey Ramsay
Twenty-fifth Anniversary

There was a happy gathering of old neighbors and friends at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Ramsay, three miles west of town, last Saturday -- in memory of an interesting episode which occurred twenty-five years before in the Helphrey home of Sherman township, when Will Ramsay and Miss Melissa Helphrey two among the most prominent young people of the neighborhood, plighted their marriage vows and Miss Melissa became Mrs. Wm. J. Ramsay.

The quarter of a century of years that have passed since then have frosted the hair and furrowed the cheeks somewhat of the happy bride and groom, but in spirit and disposition they are "just as young as they used to be," and their love for each other has strengthened and grown with the years.

The celebration of their silver anniversary was contrived and carried out by their two daughters, Mrs. Stella Forbes and Miss Leone, at whose bidding about ninety friends assembled on Saturday and partook of a sumptuous dinner followed by an afternoon every moment of which was full of enjoyment. The bride and groom were the recipients of a large number of anniversary gifts--all of them beautiful and many costly--attesting the regard and esteem of their friends. May they live to be host and hostess at their golden anniversary, is the wish of all. ~ The Newton Record. June 7, 1900.