Mr. and Mrs. Edwin R.Whitney's 50th Anniversary, Grand Ledge, Eaton County, Michigan

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[1913]

GRAND LEDGE COUPLE CELEBRATE THEIR FIFTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

(Special to the State Journal)

GRAND LEDGE,  Aug 14

Today was celebrated the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin R. 
Whitney, pioneer residents of this city.  Mrs. Whitney has been a member of 
the W.R.C. of this city since its organization more than 25 years ago and her 
husband has been a member of Earl Halbert Post, No. 108, G.A.R. longer than a 
quarter of a century.  Their marriage took place in this city in the old 
Jenne house, the ceremony being performed by Rev. A.O. Jenne, a Baptist 
clergyman.  Mrs. Whitney was formerly Miss Nancy H. Mann, and is the last of 
the family of 15 children.  She had several brothers in the army and her 
father, known as Captain Mann, helped drill recruits for the army.  She has 
lived in this vicinity since 1858, coming to Oneida township from Amherst, 
Ohio, where she was born May 6, 1841.

Mr. Whitney, who joined the army the December following his marriage was born 
in Ellisburg, Jefferson county, New York, and has spent the greater part of 
his life in the vicinity of Grand Ledge, where with his wife they are highly 
esteemed.  One son, Albion, was born to this marriage but died soon after 
reaching his twenty-first birthday.

The members of Earl Halbert Post, No. 108, and W.R.C., No. 16, assembled at 
their pretty home on Union st. this afternoon in honor of the occasion.