Tabor, 50th Wedding Anniversary 1895

TABOR, HEDDING

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 3/25/2021 at 10:25:32

Source: Decorah Republican Oct. 17, 1895 P 12 C 2

On Oct. 8th, 1845, D. C. Taber and wife were married, and to-day a few of their friends expect to make them a visit in honor of the event. Will refer to the event in our next “H.H.”

Source: Decorah Republican Oct. 24, 1895 P 4 C 3

The golden wedding anniversary of D. C. Taber and Harriet Hedding Taber, of which note was made in “H. H.” of the 8th inst., materialized to the extent of a very pleasant gathering of relatives and friends who spent a few hours of the day in social intercourse, and feasting upon the good things prepared by Aunt Harriet and some of those who had invited themselves to the feast. The principal wedding presents were a pair of gold-bowed spectacles to the groom from three children and a gold pin, in the shapes of a “white ribbon" bow, to the bride from the guests, also valuable presents from relatives in New Hampshire. Aunt Harriet thinks she must look youthful, or they would not have thought of a new bow for her. Of the thirty-four guests present, all but five were over sixty years of age, and the average age of six of them was about eighty two years, and I dare say that Aunt Elizabeth Street aged 82. Aunt Delia Wilson aged 84, and Uncle Moses Gove aged 88, were as jolly and sociable as some of the more youthful ones. Might say in this connection that Mr. and Mrs. Taber at one time lived in “the old log house,” the first house built in Hesper township, and Mr. Taber hauled the boiler for the old grist and saw mill from Lansing, with an ox team, in about the middle of the fifties.