Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1902 — Married 61 Years Ago Friday. [ARTICLE]

Married 61 Years Ago Friday.

Jasper county’s oldest married couple* in age and length of time m'arried, Friday, Jan 10, celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary. They are Mr. and Mrs. Jonas G. Clark, parents of Mrs. Henry Amsler, of Rensselaer. They have resided in Rensselaer since last October, when they came from Brushton, New York, where they had spent almost their entire married life. Both are natives of Vermont. Mr. Clark will be 90 years of age the coming 2nd day of February and Mrs. Clark will be 85 years of age the coming 14th of August. They are in quite excellent health and Mr. Clark makes almost daily trips into the business part of the town and has during his’ short residence here made a number of acquaintances, who enjoy talking with him, because of his very pleasing address, his excellent memory, accuracy in matters of his history and ability to discuss matters of current happening. Mr. Clark has always been opposed to works of fiction and has read history and newspapers exclusively. He may be said to have the world’s history at his tongue’s end. He has always been/ a staunch Republican and has voted for every Republican president since 1835. He has kept posted on the issues of every campaign and says the Republican party has always been the party of the people, and was always for progress, protection and prosperity. During their 61 years of married life they have moved but five times, including their removal here last October, and until they broke up house-keeping to come here to spend their declining days with their daughter, they had always kept bouse beneath their own roof. That their lives have been spen in the pursuit of right living and good deeds needs only the confirmation of a few moments conversation with them, and the halo of happiness that beams from their cheerful oontenances bespeaks the result of many years of domestic bliss. This venerable couple are the parents of six living children, 17 grand-children and 5 great grandchildren. The oldest of the living children isMrs. Wm.McClimansof Oxford. Ind., who was 60 last November. The other children are Mrs. Amsler, of Rensselaer, one daughter at Stamford, Conn., one daughter in New Hampshire, and one daughter and one son in Wichita, Kans. Owing to the short period of their residence here, the anniversary was not celebrated by any gathering at the Amsler home, but was being quietly spent by the aged oouple.