Chester County PA Archives News.....Clayton Golden Wedding Anniversary February 28, 1924
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Daily Local News, February 28, 1924 February 28, 1924
Daily Local News
February 28, 1924
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Clayton, East Evergreen Street, West Grove, was 
the scene of festivity on Tuesday, the 5th, when they celebrated their golden 
wedding.  The home was tastefully decorated and the couple whose smiling faces 
and bright eyes belied the seventy years of their pilgrimage, sat beneath a 
golden canopy, amid ferns and received the congratulations of their many 
friends.  The effect of the canopy was produced by a gracefully arrangement of 
Yellow crepe paper.  Beautiful calla lilies also figured as floral decorations.

The “bride’s cake”, flowered and dated, was a pronounced feature of the 
attractive table where hospitality was dispensed with a liberal hand.  The 
gifts were numerous, useful and pretty.  Some gold figured on the gift table, 
giving an appropriate touch to the kindly tokens given by friends.  The 
reception lasted from two to nine and was enjoyed by everyone.

Mr. and Mrs. Clayton have been residents of West Grove twenty years or more.  
They stand in the community for integrity and are beloved by many. As 
neighbors, they are kindly and obliging and given to many good works.  Mr. 
Clayton and one son, Clifford Clayton, are florists, and the flowers that have 
gone to brighten sick rooms, sent by Mrs. Clayton’s forethought and generosity 
have bee innumerable.  “Say it with flowers” has been her fixed habit of 
expressing her gentle sympathy for the sick.  In private rooms in hospitals, 
bright blossoms expressive of her remembrance have bloomed by beds of pain.

Elwood Clayton, the oldest of two sons, is a prominent storekeeper at West 
Grove.  He and his wife have been zealous to make this golden wedding stand out 
as a shining memory not to be forgotten.

Among those present were Josiah J Clayton, Annie M. Clayton, Mr. and Mrs. 
Walton E. White, S. Emma Walton, Mabelle A. Hill, Mrs. Brooks Hartman, Mr. and 
Mrs. Thomas Baylis, Elizabeth L. Moore, Lillian R. Clayton, Myrtle I Baylis, 
Rachel G.B. Clayton, Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Miller, Jr, Clarence D. Baylis, Mr. and 
Mrs. T.E. Clayton, Miss J.J. Wendell, Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Yarnall, Mr. and Mrs. 
Lewis Brackin, Clifford D. Clayton, J.H. Yarnall, Mary B. Yarnall, Mrs. W.E. 
Jackson, Mrs. Ida E Ecklin, Mrs. Samuel H Smith, Sara A. Gallagher, Rev. and 
Mrs. H.A. Troutman, Laura E. Valentine, Urulla V. Cost, Mayme Steele, Mr. and 
Mrs. James A. Wilson, Mary V. Hocking, S. James Todd, M.E. Todd, Mr. and Mrs. 
Amos Dougherty, John J. Chambers, Mr. and Mrs. R.T. Satterthwaite, Mr. and Mrs. 
Walter. Clark, Rachel V. Laughlin, Miss N. Laughlin, Lillian B. Davis, D. 
Harold Davis, J. Arthur Clark, Blanche E Clark, Deneva Farmer, Elnor Clayton, 
James Clayton, Lillian B. Davis, J.A. Clark, Jr, Louise Miller, Mildred Miller.
Four generations were represented at the happy gathering. 


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Josiah Clayton's obituary is posted on this site.

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