Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1915 — Mrs. Emma C. A. Cox Married at Soldiers’ Home. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Emma C. A. Cox Married at Soldiers’ Home.

Mrs. Emma C. A. Cox, daughter of the wife of Elder D. L. Halstead deceased by a former marriage, was married this Wednesday afternoon at the State soldiers’ home near Lafayette to Reuben J. Powell, bugler of the home. The marriage was performed by Rev. J. Young, of the Adventist church. The couple stood on the porch of the Tippecanoe county building and the 1,000 inmates of the institution witnessed the ceremony. Mrs. Cox formerly lived in this county and in 1903 went to the soldiers’ home as a matron and has continued there since that time with the exception of a short time when she came here to care for her aged mother and step-father. Mr. Powell went to the home from Cass county the same year Mrs. Cox did and their courtship has continued over the intervening years and is said to be the most romantic in the history of the institution. Mr. Powell was the home bugler and for a dozen years has signaled the hour of arising, mess calls and the taps. Today he blew the bugle at the home for the last time and with his bride will go to Cass county to reside on a farm. Mrs. W. S. Coen and daughter, Miss Alice, accompanied by Dr. Gwin, went to Chicago this morning, where Mrs. Coen will enter Wesley hospital for an operation . Miss Alice will also have her tonsils removed. It is probable that Mrs. Coen will be in the hospital for two or three weeks.