Wayne County MI Archives News.....Abraham & Phyllis LeBlanc - 50th Wedding Anniversary January 13, 1902 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Amy Bruhn Amy.Bruhn@gmail.com October 11, 2006, 8:55 pm Ecorse News January 13, 1902 WELL-KNOWN ECORSE COUPLE CELEBRATE THEIR FIFTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Just 50 years ago today Abraham LeBlanc, now one of the oldest, but then one of the youngest farmers and mightiest hunters of Ecorse, led blushing Phyllis Perry to the altar of St. Francis Xavier's, then a new catholic church, where good Fr. Deporter made them man and wife. today the ceremony is being repeated, Fr. Champion being the officiating priest. the original wedding ring was lost, but the children will replace it with a new one. Mr. LeBlanc is now 81 years of age, and his wife 71. Shortly before their wedding and on the same place where Mr. LeBlanc lives, was a log house, erected by the present occupant's grandfather. In this house Fr. Boehm, one of the first pastors of the Ecorse church, celebrated mass occasionally, baptized the children and married the young couples. Mr. LeBlanc's father on these occasions acted as altar boy and choir at the same time, in one room set apart for this purpose. An old cupboard where the priest stored the vestments of the mass may still be seen. At the first marriage of the couple, Antoine LeBlanc, now living, acted as best man, and Miss Susan Perry, now Mrs. Susan Drouillard, as bridesmaid. In his early manhood Mr. LeBlanc was highway commissioner, and it was through his efforts that Fort Street was made to run to the Monguagon line. He built the first railroad bridge over the Ecorse creek and at one time was Uncle Sam's custom house officer in the township. Mr. LeBlanc enjoys splendid health, dearly loves a good joke, and is continually playing pranks on his grandchildren, of whom there are 18. He reads without glasses and enjoys his meals. Mrs. LeBlanc, when young, lived at Sandwich, and here youthful swain had a good long pull at the oar when he desired to visit his sweetheart. Mr. LeBlanc has always lived on the same spot. The old house in which he was born was long ago pulled down, and a more modern one took its place. The couple have seven children: Samuel, Richard, Eli, Phillip, Frank and Fred LeBlanc, and Mrs. John Seavitt. One child is dead. All of the children and grandchildren will be present today in the old homestead. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/wayne/newspapers/abrahamp44gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb