Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1915 — GIRL OF 19 WEDS MAN OF 89 [ARTICLE]

GIRL OF 19 WEDS MAN OF 89

Then Happy Couple Start on Their Wedding /Trip In an Automobile. Greenfield, Mo— “Uncle Matt” McPherson, eighty-nine years old and one of the pioneer citizens of Dade county, and Miss Clara Burns, nineteen years old, of Higginsville, Mo., were married at the courthouse here recently. The ceremony was performed by Rev. William Shaw of this city. The young bride arrived at Lockwood, where the bridegroom lives, on a train. “Uncle Matt” was at the station to meet her. Within a few hours “Uncle Matt” had donned a new suit of clothes arid, engaging an automobile, set out for Greenfield.