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Show si m'mi I Pittsburg Couple Celebrate an Unusual Anniversary at Their Home. 1 THEIR BRIDAL TOUR . WAS MADE IN BUGGY Lived for Fifty Years on One Farm in Allegheny County. Mr. and Mrs. Bnudnll Morton of Pittsburg," Pa., completed . sixty-seven years of married life Sunday. Tboy stariod .011 their wedding journey July 2S, IS'tO, when in a buggy they traveled trav-eled over tho mountains from Somerset, Somer-set, Pa., where they- wore married, to Pittsburg. Ju Pittsburg thoy have spent almost all of their married life, and Sunday a dinner at their home in, Col- Hub avenue brought together again all of the remaining members of their family. fam-ily. C&vcrs were laid for fifteen, and the dinner was a reunion of their daughter and daughter-in-law, , grandchildren grand-children aud great grandchildren." Have One Daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Morton are now living with their granddaughter and her husband, hus-band, Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Ellsworth, on Collins avenue, having sold their farm in Squirrel Hill several yenrs ago, be-I be-I cause all of the members of their family 1 had scattered and were living elsewhere and they were lonely. Mr. arid Mrs. Ellsworth's Ells-worth's twin babies. '1 months old, named Mabel and Helen, afford thfm great delight. Only one of Mr. and Mrs. Morton's five children is now living. liv-ing. They have thrco great grandchildren. grandchil-dren. Mr. Morton was born in Whately, Mass., of Revolutionary stock, being descended from Simeon Morton, who fought in the War of Independence. Ho came west when only 21, and in Somerset Somer-set married Miss Ch'rissa Wilson, whose birthplace was Washington, Pa. She also came of patriotic ancestry, being a descendant of Abraham Clark" of Now Jersey, one of tho signers of tho Declaration Decla-ration of Independence. Bridal Tour in a Buggy. Those were tho days before railroads and automobiles, and Mho bride ami bridegroom drove in a buggy over the mountains on their first wedding journey. jour-ney. A sister of Mrs. Morton. 'Mrs. Frank Kerpan, who now lives in La-trobe, La-trobe, was one of the very few guests at the wedding who are still living. Coming to Pittsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Morton both taught school for a while and lived on Washington avenue, Allegheny. Alle-gheny. Mr. Morton was principal of the hourtli ward school. Allegheny, and lator tnught in the Lawronceville school. Tn a few yoars. however, they rotired to a farm which thoy bought in the Squirrel Hill district, and which became be-came one of the largest and most prosperous pros-perous farms in that section of Allegheny Alle-gheny county. There thoy lived for j over fifty years, selling the place a few years ago to Alexander R. Peacock, who became attached to it when as a friend of Maj. Howard Morton he was invited to spend Saturday afternoons there during his early years in Pittsburg. Pitts-burg. Still Enjoy Life. Mr. and Mrs. Morton aro well and happy and interested iu the happenings of everyday life. Next month thov will celebrate their birthday anniversaries. anniver-saries. Mrs. Morton will bo So on August Au-gust IS and on the following day her husband will bo .00. There are "not many of the friends of former years now living, liv-ing, but both tho wedding'and the birthday birth-day anniversaries aro remembered by the little circle, which is growing smaller small-er yoar by year, and reunions aro brightened with reminiscences of tho days whou Pittsburg was younger. |