Show BRA BEAUTIFUL GOLDEN C YEARS TEARS I FOR JUDGE fUDGE AND MRS ROLE Fifty years of married life fifty beautiful golden years will have been finished by Judge and Mrs Jonathan C Royle of Salt Lake when their friends gather next Tuesday evening to celebrate their golden wedding They were were married in Missouri when the country particularly that part of it was quivering with the unrest that preceded the civil war The war came caine a few years later to find Mr Ir Royle Roy e of the combatants and his young wife and their older children left where strife was almost continuous Before they left for the west Mrs Royle had passed through a battle in which houses aground abound her homo home were wrecked wr with cannon balls while her husband took part in the fight and she had been ar arrested arrested arrested rested on account of the r fam ily lly had bad in the struggle Seven days Mr Royles Royl s period of enlistment ex expired expired expired in 1863 and he decided to move away from Missouri as it was not safe for or us at home They even arrested me They did not put me in prison but accepted my parole The feeling was very v strong there as the population was divided between the north and the south in sympathy and I believe my arrest was due chiefly to spite work Mr lr Royle Role went to Colorado in a private private private vate conveyance and sent for tor me later laterI I shall never forget that terrible stage trip It lasted seven days and seven nights with no stops except for Cor meals I had three children to care for forI I had never been away from my moth mother er and my husband before and it just seemed as if I undertake the journey But the situation at home was such that I decided to start A Memorable Trip I left Atchison with the three little beys cys and a girl of 14 years The western mines had caused great excite excitement excitement ment mont at that time and every coach was as loaded There were nine of us In Inthe inthe Inthe the one I rode in So great was the demand for transportation that a half dozen men stood with their grips at the coach door ready to take our seats if I 1 should decide not to go They tried to dissuade me saying baying I could never make it in the world Oh can I ever take this trip I cried At that mo moment moment moment ment a big burly man InsIde the coach said Come on madam This coach is full of honest men I dont know how to tell you who we are arc but we are going to the mines near Salt Lake City and well take ake care of you My name is McGuffey McGuffey fey and Im a nephew of the reader and speller man manI I 1 shall never forget that splendid big ig McGuffey He was wasa a Virginian Virgini n and had bad the kindest voice and smile one could imagine I was the only woman in the coach and he bc looked after me wo reached Jules Julesburg Julesburg burg I think where here the roads divided I had never traveled alone and would forget to pay for Cot my meals along the road causing the to cry after me when I started to leave Final Finally ly y I just turned my purse over to Mc McGuffey McGuffey oc Guffey and I was not bothered again while I was with him He took care c re of me ne until we parted at Julesburg Dreaded the Journey There Ther I X hud had to take another coach 1 I E a j j I g 4 1 4 I Y 1 1 I TL t ti i ii Ui 1 r v A Ap I p 4 i 4 II C and seven nights continuous travel in ina ina Ina a stage coach with her three young children to care for Cor without protection other than that afforded by rough min mining mInIng mm ing men through the dangers that menaced the road to Denver in the was the next great experience of the young wife Since then their life has been peace peaceful peaceful peaceful ful Fifty beautiful golden years Is Mrs Royles description of it Back to Wedding Day I It scarcely seems possible that it was fifty years ears ago she says Why Th ThI I am all aflutter just as If it I 1 were a ayoung ayoung ayoung young girl I have just had a letter that takes me back to our wedding day My y dearest girl friend whose hus husband husband husband band was Mr Royles close friend when all an of us were young oung together will be here Tuesday She is Mrs Lee J Sharp of Butte formerly of cit Salt Lake and we knew her as Mary Chadwick first She was married a few weeks before we were was present at our wedding at our silver sliver wedding years ears ago and now she is coming to our golden wedding See here bere is one of our wedding cards she has kept all an these years and has just sent to me meIr Mr Ir and Mrs Royle Boyle then Miss Eliza Kirtley were married In the Presby Presbyterian Presbyterian Presbyterian terian church at Lexington Mo lIo April 23 1857 Mr lIr Royle Boyle was then a young lawyer and except for the time he was in the army he has followed his pro profession profession profession ever since Mr and Mrs Irs Royle Boyle both belonged to southern families Mr Royle enlisted in the confederate army and acted as judge advocate of Prices army He was in the engagement at Lexington when his family passed through the dangers in the town Feeling Was Strong I shall never forget that day says Mrs Royle Mr Royle was off in the fight somewhere and we were left at home lome almost helpless Our three oldest children were babies then I 1 remember remember ber her we went down into cellars to keep out of the way of the bullets Several houses around us were vere ere struck by can cannon cannon cannon non balls but none hit our house The next day I 1 gathered quantities of r inie balls in iii the yard and ride about miles to Denver Denyer I dreaded this part of the trip and ar arranged arranged arranged ranged to have hav Mr Royle Boyle meet me there At Fort Kearney I 1 met Mr Car Carlyle Carlyle Carlyle lyle a friend of Mr Royle Boyle and gave gaye him a telegram asking Mr Royle Boyle to meet me at Julesburg Mr Carlyle unfortunately lost the telegram He had not read it so he telegraphed to Mr Royle Boyle that the babies and I had passed Kearney and were all right i iI I did not doubt that Mr lr Royle would be in Julesburg for he has al always always ways been the most devoted and con considerate considerate j husband in the world I 1 ex cx expected him to be at the coach door I but of course he was not there I 1 did not know what to do and was greatly I frightened McGuffey was especially worried and all the men were sorry they could C not see me safely sa fel y to Denver McGuffey hunted up the man who was to drive me to Denver Denyer and found him very much intoxicated But there are two men going to Denver Denyer and I 1 think they will wili take care of you One is an anold anold anold old actor going to Central City and the theother theother theother other Is an invalid I dont believe either can hurt you at least I 1 have never heard of McGuffey since Meeting in Denver We left Julesburg about 10 at night and that part of the trip was the worst of all The road was fright frightfully frightfully frightfully fully rough we traveled rapidly and you can imagine what sort of at moon moonlight moonlight moonlight light drive it was with a drunken driver over that road We Ve could scarce scarcely scarcely ly Iy keep our seats in the coach I just gathered the three children in my arms anti and held them as I braced myself to keep from Crom being thrown to the floor Mr Royle Boyle was waiting for me at Denver DenYer was a little canvas canyas canvastown canvastown town then He was at thedoor of the coach when it was opened I 1 was so tired and frightened that instead of greeting him as lie 1 h deserved I 1 just threw myself into his arms and cried Oh why you come to meet me Why you come to Julesburg He took me and the babies into the hotel and then I learned why he met me Move Moye to Salt Lake The family lived Jived at Central City I eight years leaving for California in I 1871 and moving to Salt Lake In 1873 1813 Mr Royle first came to Salt Lake as I counsel for Warren Hussey to take part in litigation involving the Emma mine one of the first mining suits in Utah Soon after the family moved to Salt Lake Mr Royle formed a law partnership with the late Judge Thom Thomas as Marshall that lasted thirty years ears The men first met in Salt Lake but their families had been friends In the east years before Mr and Mrs Royle Boyle had five children One son died in Colorado The other children are Dr Sinclair Royle Boyle and Ed Edwin Edwin Edwin win Milton Royle the actor and play playwright playwright playwright wright of New York Mrs Martha Royle King and J C Royle jr of Salt Lake There are three grandchildren Mrs King Kino and her little son will be the only descendants at the celebration c Tuesday evening but the others all ail have sent congratulatory letters Other congratulatory letters have been received from Judge and Mrs rs Hal Sayre of Denver who were present when Mr and Mrs Royle celebrated their tin wedding at Central City forty years ago from former Governor Thomas Crittenden of Missouri from Rev Dr T B Vincent of Central City and others A Cultured Family Mrs rs Royle was born itt t Columbia Mo about years ago Her father was Captain Sinclair Kirtley a noted lawyer of his day da He served many terms in the Missouri legislature and was city attorney of St Louis He was an Intimate friend of Edward Bates Dates Samuel Grover and other men prominent in Missouri Largely through his personal efforts and financial as assistance assIstance assist nce the University of Missouri was located at his home in Columbia He was a man of unusual learning and culture Mrs Royle believes b her son Ned inherits his dramatic talent from her father Mrs Royle was one of the founders and the first president of the Ladies Ladles Literary club of Salt Lake one of the first clubs to be formed west of the Missouri She is still an active member of the club which celebrated its thirtieth birthday In February Mr lIr Royle Boyle was born at Lexington about years ago He took up the study of law early in life anti and was admitted to practice In Missouri when a young mane mani man He has tong long been one of the most highly regarded law lawyers lawers lawyers I ers of Utah Mr and Mrs Royle both enjoy splendid health and each looks at least a decade younger than the th ages to which they thc confess Their married life has been unusually happy a condition for which each gives the theother theother theother other credit About invitations have been is issued Issued issued sued to the reception which will be at ut Mrs Kings ICings studio in the Commercial club building I I I |