Columbiana County OhArchives News.....After Fifty Years - Celebration of the Golden Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Fould April 15 1892
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East Liverpool Crisis
Celebration of the Golden Wedding of Mr. And Mrs. Foulk.
	April 7 was a glad day at the home of Henry Foulk, two miles north east 
of Calcutta. Being fifty years married, a large number of relatives and friends 
met to greet them on the occasion of their golden wedding. Between eighty and 
ninety were present. Three sisters of Mr. Foulk were in attendance from 
Findlay, Tiffin, and Canton. Rev. Joseph Foulk, a brother preaching in the 
Indian Territory, was absent. Of the nineteen children in the family to which 
this venerable man belonged, only seven are living. We could not but ask some 
questions about so remarkable a family, and the first striking fact was that 
all the original family of nineteen lived to mature years before death made 
inroads and took Judith, seventeen years of age. All became members of the 
church, leading honorable and useful lives in the community, the result of the 
home training and home life in the house of the venerable grandfather Solomon 
Foulk. They were a family, of singers, and there were daily prayers from the 
parents and children. When very small, four or five would be kneeling around 
the mother’s knee saying their evening prayer to the father in Heaven in the 
name of Jesus. When seated at their table, they would repeat “Come Lord Jesus 
be our guest. And let what thou hast given us be blest.”
	With such a sanctified home life we may well expect to see such happy 
people when their locks are white as those of Mr. Henry Foulk and his venerable 
brother Charles, living near him. Mrs. Foulk, with her husband, on this 
memorable occasion was full of life and good humor, having a remarkable 
preserved vigor of mind and body. It was quite a curiosity to see six of the 
dinner plates on the table that were given to her by her mother, Mrs. Smith, 
fifty years ago. The couple are living on the farm they came to one year after 
their marriage, where they have raised their six children two daughters and 
four sons. Three of these sons, the Foulk Brothers, are worthy citizens and 
church workers in East Liverpool, the others are members of Long’s Run church 
with their parents. There are seventeen grandchildren, most of them at the 
golden wedding. After a splendid dinner and pleasant social hours were enjoyed, 
the exercises of the day were closed by the pastor reading a psalm, with 
prayer, and a parting hymn. 
	“My heavenly home is bright and fair. Nor sin nor death can enter 
there.” Making each one present feel that some of the “dews of Hermon” were 
there, “where God commands his blessing, even life forever more.”


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