Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1902 — A Golden Wedding Anniversary. [ARTICLE]

A Golden Wedding Anniversary.

Our townspeople, Joseph Yeoman. and his wife Rachel, were married fifty years ago today, Nov. 28th, 1902, in a log cabin near where the village of Foresman now stands, by a Rev. Mr. Lansing, a Free Will Baptist minister. The event was observed by about 50 of their friends, who gave them a surprise dinner party, at noon, today, at their residence in the north part of town. A big dinner wal served from the contents of baskets carried by the guests. Mr. Yeoman is 75 years old and Mrs. Yeoman 72.