Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1904 — A Golden Wedding Celebration. [ARTICLE]

A Golden Wedding Celebration.

Wallace W. Murray and. Rose Ann Barkley were married July 25th, 1854. Therefore Monday, July 25th, 1904 was the 50th anniversary of their wedding, (nas much as many friends and relatives could not be present on_ Monday, the occasion was celebrated on Sunday, July 241 b, the day before the anniversary proper. The original wedding took place at the old Barkley home, in Barkley tp, and the celebration Sundry, took place at Mr. and Mrs. Murray’s home, in the same township. They have also lived in that township all of their married life except the first three years, which were spent in While county *and where their oldest son, ex* auditor Harry B. Murray, was born. Their other four surviving children, Will and Charley Murray Mrs. Mary Donnelly and Mrs. Dora English, were all born in Barkley, but each in a different house.

The five children were all present Sunday, and also their nine grand-children and one great-grand-ohild. Their path m life has been unusually free from affliction, only one child having died, and no grand-ohild. Other relatives present Sunday were Uncle Wallace’s only brother Henry Murray, wife and children, from Monon; Charles Murray a nephew and daughter, also from Monon, Another Charles Murray also a nephew, and wife, from Chicago, and Ida Murray, a neioe from Monticello. In all about 75 were present and spent the day, at their pleasant home in Barkley township, A fine dipper was, of course a feature, and so also the bestowal of several desirable presents, A notable series of photagraphp were also taken by H. F. Parker, the Rensselaer photographer, These included a picture of the entire company, a group picture of all the Murrays present, a picture of Mr. and'Mrs. Murray and a snapshot at Uncle Wallace and Uncle Henry as they talked together, all unconscious that the photographer was aiming at them with his camera. Uncle Wallace, by the way, is an own grandson, on his mother’s side, of Simon Kenton, the great Indian fighter, and companion of Daniel Boone. Mrs. Murray’s ancestors came from Pennsylvania.