Butts County GaArchives News.....G. C. Thaxton – REUNION August 10 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 June 15, 2004, 8:07 pm Middle Ga. Argus – Week of August 10, 1893 On Saturday, the family of Mrs. G. C. Thaxton, held a reunion at the old homestead near Elgin. The family was a somewhat remarkable one, there being twelve children, six boys and six girls. The oldest was a boy and the next a girl, and alternating all the way through. The ninth was still born and the father and oldest boy died in 1885. These living children with their wives, husbands, children and grandchildren, numbering 36 grandchildren, eight great- grandchildren an a few other near relatives cast themselves together in and around the old house in which they were reared and spent the day as one great family. When the sun reached the meridian a long table was spread under the broad beautiful oaks near The old oaken bucket, The iron bound bucket, The moss covered bucket, That hangs on the well. From which a feast indeed was partaken, eighty two persons being the whole number who partook of the tempting meal. It was a day of pleasure, but as vacant chairs were seen and thoughts of those gone before would arise sadness would fill our hearts and sometimes the willing tears would freely flow. There were absent 14 grand children, 8 great grandchildren and 25 dead, making the whole number emanating from the mother, still living, 84 souls. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb