Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1914 — Squire Irwin Married Elderly Couple Tuesday. [ARTICLE]

Squire Irwin Married Elderly Couple Tuesday.

Squire Ijßrrti married a couple Tuesday raat did not have to secure the consent of their parents to have the knot woven, the groom being 80 years of age and the bride 64. Notwithstanding the fact that they were far past the age where parental approval is required they had some difficulty in getting married, having been denied a license at Crown Point, where the clerk made objection because the bride did not reside in Lake county. He directed them to Rensselaer, the trip being made by auto, and after getting a license of Clerk Perkins, they were married in the clerk’s office by Squire Irwin. Both had had previous experience and consequently were not very much abashed when the obligations were spoken, although the bride in a blushing manner expressed a wish that the newspapers should not say' much about it. T~ ~ • - The groom wasCharleAG. Brown, of Shelby, where he is called “the mayor.” He is a retired farmer, a native of Vermont, and will be 81 years of age the Bth of next September. He has had one previous matrimonial voyage, his first wife having died Dec. 23, 1906. The bride was Mrs. Rose V. Thompson, and she was born in Ohio June 28, 1850. Her home & at DeMotte and she has been married twice before, her first husband being named Stell, and her second husband was Charles Thompson. No 1 died in 1908 and No. 2in 1911. Both are quite hearty in appearance and their acquaintances and friends will wish for them a long and happy married life, with “many happy returns.”