Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1900 — Married After Fifty Years. [ARTICLE]

Married After Fifty Years.

The culmination of a romance of fifty years’ standing was witnessed in the county recorder’s office at Kansas City, Mo., the other day when Sherman L. N. Foote, aged 72, aud Mrs. Lizzie D. Baker, nged (58, were united in marriage. Mrs. Baker when a girl of 18 taught school in the East and among her pupils was L. N. Foote, a farmer four years her senior. The two fell in love and became engaged, but a quarrel separated them. Both eventually married other parties and lost track, of each other. About three years ago Mrs. Baker’s husband died and n year Inter Mr. Foote lost his wife. Then Mr. Foote learmal the address of his sweetheart of long ago and opened up a correspondence with the result that they have been married at last.