MARRIAGE: Caspar WAITE to Susan WALTER, 1841, Blair County, PA

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Golden Wedding.

  On last Wednesday your scribe had the pleasure of attending a social 
gathering at the residence of Caspar and Susan Waite, Tyrone, Pa., in 
commemoration of their fiftieth wedding anniversary.  The guests, 
numbering about twenty-five, hailing from Altoona, Tyrone, Tipton, 
Warriorsmark and Canoe valley, were on the immediate friends and 
relatives, and the affair was a complete surprise to the parties most 
intimately concerned.  After the compliments and congratulations 
incident to such occasions, were exchanged, the ladies of the party 
took possession, and from the mysterious depths of hampers and baskets 
procured and prepared a feast fit for the gods, a collation designed to 
tickle the appetite of the most fastidious epicure.
  It is needless to say that the viands were highly enjoyed, especially 
by your scribe and Brother Hildebrand, junior.  The groom, Caspar 
Waite, is almost an octogenarian; will reach his 80th year sometime in 
April.  The bride, Susan Waite, nee Walter, is 9 years younger.  Both 
are hale and hearty, considering their years and the hardships of life 
which they have undergone.  As we draw the curtain over the picture, 
leaving them to their quiet life and return to our own homes, we wish 
them happiness as full as that which we enjoyed when we were assembled 
beneath their roof, to wish them joy on an anniversary so seldom 
reached in domestic life.  May the "peace which passeth all 
understanding" smooth the rough pathway of their declining years. - J. 
K. W.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, March 30, 1891