Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1912 — Gold Wedding Copy of First [ARTICLE]

Gold Wedding Copy of First

Menu of Supper Is Same as That Served After Couple Were First United In 1862. Indianapolis.—With the same menu that was spread before them fifty years ago, and with several of the same persons as guests who were present at their first wedding supper, Mr. and Mrs. Levi C. Bowser observed the ffiftluth anniversary of their marriage by serving a wedding supper to their children and a few friends. When Miss Caroline Dawson became the bride of Levi C. Bowser on March 6, 1862, the event was followed by a bounteous supper at the country home of the bride’s father, John W. Dawson, then one of the prominent farmers of Marion county. Turkey was the piece de resistance of the happy feast, and turkey was served to the wedding guests again. The guests who witnessed the wedding fifty years ago were Capt Byron Dawson, retired army officer; Richeson Moore and Mrs. Nancy Graham. There were about fifty persons at the wedding, but these are the only ones now'living in Marlon county. Mr. and Mrs. Bowser have lived for more than forty of the fifty years of their married life tn their present home. In many respects theirs has been an ideal romance. Mr. Bowser’s father also was a pioneer farmer of the county, and owned a farm adjoining the Dawson farm, about three miles south of Indianapolis. As playmates in their childhood, lovers in their youth and husband and wife in later years, hardly a day of their lives

has passed but what they have seen each other. For many years Mr. Bowser conducted a grocery at South street and Virginia avenue and. later at Fletcher avenue and Shelby street, but retired from business several years ago. Mr. Bowser is 74 years old and Mrs. Bowser is 68. He is in excellent health, but Mrs. Bowser has been confined to her ehair from rheumatism for several years. .