Durham-Chatham-Wake County NcArchives News.....FAMILY WITH UNUSUAL RECORD January 4, 1909
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Charlotte Dailey Observer January 4, 1909
FAMILY WITH UNUSUAL RECORD

I. S. Upchurch Married For Fifty-Seven Years and Has 106 Relatives

Special to The Observer
Durham, Jan. 3. - On the border line of Wake, Durham and Chatham counties the
family of Mr. I.S. Upchurch lives and it has a remarkable record. the last
birthday of the year is Mr. Upchurch's birthday. It is always celebrated by a
family reunion, and the encroachment of years seldom finds one missing. Mr.
Upchurch married Miss Dillie Beavers December 23d, 1851. To them were born
thirteen children, and eleven survive. Ten of the eleven were present at the
recent reunion and forty- nine grandchildren attended. Fourteen of the
twenty-one great grandchildren came, and with the ten children, their wives and
husbands: the forty grandchildren, their wives and husbands, and the great
grandchildren, there were 106 relatives, 84 of who were present.

The spread dinner was a feature of the old gentleman's natal day. It was made up
of a basket from every family. The table which carried it was sawed fifty years
ago and is made of planks seventeen inches wide. They are in a perfect state of
preservation.

Mr. Upchurch lived forty-three years with his first wife, who died fifteen years
ago. In 1902 he married Mrs. Watson and they enjoyed almost perfect health. In
the fifty-seven years of married life, there have been but seven deaths in all
of the families, a remarkable record.

Additional Comments:
Isham Sims Upchurch was born 31 Dec 1824 and died 3 April 1916.

Reporter may have mixed up some of his facts, here is an extraction of the
marriage in Chatham County.

Chatham County Marriage Register
I.S. Upchurch, Chatham Co., 77
Mrs. R. A. Taylor, Chatham Co., 56
married 2 Feb 1903
by J. U. Goodwin, JP, New Hope Twp.
witnesses: J.T. McNeil, W.P. Holt, J.H. Hinsley


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