NEWS: Samuel & Emma BRENAMAN Golden Wedding Anniversary, 1889, Blair County, PA

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CELEBRATED THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING.

  Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Breneman, who are honored residents of the Mountain 
City and who reside at No. 1517 Fifth avenue, celebrated the golden 
anniversary of their wedding at their home yesterday evening.  They received 
many handsome as well as useful and valuable presents, and to these were 
added the heartfelt congratulations and well wishes of the relatives and 
friends of the worthy couple who were present in goodly number.
  Mr. and Mrs. Brenaman were married on February 14, 1839, at Williamsburg, 
now in Blair county, but which, at that time, was in Williamsburg.  The 
marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. C. C. Guenther.  To Mr. and Mrs. 
Brenaman were born nine children.  Two of these - William and Mary - are 
dead.  The names of the living ones are: A. T. Brenaman, agent for the C. and 
R. railroad at Cumberland, Md.; J. A. and S. H. Brenaman, of the firm of J. 
A. Brenaman & Bro., painters, Altoona; John D. Brenaman, Mrs. J. A. Hindman, 
Mrs. J. E. Hofnagle and Mrs. S. H. Bowers, also of this city.  The TRIBUNE 
wishes Mr. and Mrs. Brenaman many happy returns of the day.

Altoona Tribune, February 21, 1889

Note: Samuel and Emma Brenneman appear in the 1880 Altoona, Blair County, 
Census.