Oneida County NyArchives Marriages.....Upson, Dora C. - Davis, John J. November 19, 1881
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Camden Advance-Journal, Thursday, Nov. 22, 1906
Married for 25 Years.  Mr. and Mrs. John J. Davis.  Fifty-two of their Friends 
Rejoice With Tham --Presentation of Tea Set and Table Ware.
   Davis-Upson.  At the Congregational parsonage, Camden, N.Y., Nov. 19, 1881, 
by Rev. E. Curtis, John J. Davis and Dora C. Upson, all of Camden.
   There is no more popular young couple in the town of Camden than Mr. and 
Mrs. John J. Davis.  Mr. Davis is a farmer with advanced and progressive ideas 
in the craft of husbandry and Mrs. Davis is a model farmer's wife.  Their home 
has always been a haven of welcome and cheer to their host of friends, and 
socially they have been royal entertainers.  They are prominent and active 
members of the Grange and no gathering of the order for many years has been 
complete without them.  
   But to get down to the subject of this matter, on Monday evening Mr. and 
Mrs. Davis rounded out twenty-five years of happy wedded life.  With their 
friends to the number of fifty-two, the occasion was fittingly observed and the 
silver anniversary made a pleasant memory in the history of their lives.
   The banquet, prepared under the direction of Mrs. Barbara Reafel, was a 
sumptuous four-course dinner, and a triumph of good things to satisfy the 
appetite.
   Following the supper was a surprise and presentation.  There were many 
pretty gifts in silver from relatives and friends, but the most expensive was 
the collection from the Grangers, twenty-nine being present.  In a neat speech 
rehearsing the excellent and amiable qualities and the loyalty and good work 
done by Mr. and Mrs. Davis as members of the order, he presented them an 
elegant six-piece silver tea set, one-half dozen sterling silver tea spoons, 
one-half dozen dessert spoons and a silver bread tray.  The display of silver 
was beautiful.  Mr. and Mrs. Davis were happily surprised and pleased and he 
responded as best he could considering the suddeness of the attack, as the 
remembrance far exceeded their expectations.
   The events of the evening closed with the following interesting program:
Vocal selection - "Holy Angels in their Flight"  Mr. and Mrs. Park and Miss Park
Reading - "When John Left the Farm"  Miss Newland
Duet - "Shells of the Ocean"  Mrs. Curtiss and Miss Park
Paper - Mrs. C.F. Ward
Duet - "Our Mission"  Mr. and Mrs. Ball
Reading - "The Hens Keep Laying Right along" Mrs. Wakfield
Duet - "The Whip-poor-Will Song"  Mrs. Park and Miss Park
Duet - "We Would Not Talk of Our Neighbors"  Miss Park and Miss Davis
   While all the numbers were good, the original paper by Mrs. C.F. Ward was an 
exceptionally fine effort, and was a prophesy of the past, present and future 
of the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Davis.  It began in childhood - the friendship of 
school days ripened into stronger affection until the climax was reached by the 
pledge of twenty-five years ago, when their bark set sail on the sea of 
matrimony.  Like all voyages theirs had not all been fair weather but enough of 
the clouds and storms make them better appreciate the journey.  They come to 
their silver anniversary joyful and prosperous, bound together with the chain 
of love, as fond and true as in the beginning.  There is love, hope and 
happiness 'neath the roof of their pleasant farm fireside, and their friends 
now take a peep ahead another quarter of a century, when they have wearied of 
the toils of the husbandman - have earned the reward of their labors and 
retired to village life.  May many of the guests of their silver wedding help 
celebrate the golden anniversary.
   


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