Miller Golden Wedding

MILLER, HARDENBROOK, HELPHREY, KINEBACH

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 10/14/2012 at 17:58:25

The Miller Golden Wedding

Last week we published a brief notice of the Golden Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Miller. We have received from Mr. F. A. Hardenbrook, a full and well written account of the occasion, but our space presents our prevents us publishing all of it. We, however, take from it the following particulars.

"Married in Newton, Iowa, January 20, 1859, Geo. W. Miller and Miss Emily M. Helphrey, by Judge Edmundson, being his first nuptial knot tied, also the first marriage in the old courthouse, which was then nearing completion and which was then the pride of Jasper county, for it has out-lived its usefulness.

Mr. Miller was born in New York, emigrating with his parents in 1843 to Illinois, about forty miles west of Chicago, where he accompanied by his wife, visited with relatives this winter during the holidays, to the same locality where his boyhood days were spent.

He came to Iowa in the early 50's and has been a resident of Jasper county ever since. The country was sparsely settled and Newton then unknown.

Mrs. Miller came with her parents to Jasper county in 1855, from Ohio, that state being her birthplace.

In honor of this important event, on Wednesday, January 20, 1909 invitations were issued to about 100 relatives, friends and old neighbors, to be present to help celebrate their Golden Wedding anniversary. To which 65 responded, distance and inclemency of the weather, not permitting some to be present."

The couple have five living children, thirteen grandchildren and one great grand child. The dinner was a feast of good things, served in the order of a four-course luncheon. Among the guests was Mrs. C. Kinebach, who was present at the marriage fifty years ago. Many handsome presents were received, among them a gold watch to each of the couple. ~ The Newton Journal, January 27, 1909.