Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Married After Fifty Years. [ARTICLE]

Married After Fifty Years.

An old man came to Jefferson, Ga., worn and bent, and began to make inquiries for some of the older families of the place. He said that he had left there in 1837, being then eighteen, and had never b fore returned. The cause of his, departure was the preference shown by Jessie Carmichael for a young neighbor namod Edward Tooiner. He went into the now country of Ohio, married, raised a large family, and bo came one of the patriarch of his section. Lately his wife died, and a great desire came over him to see the pooplo whom ho had known in youth. The old man was told that the girl whom he had loved was now Toomer’s widow. He at once went to see her and the next day they wero married.