News: Jacob March and Wife Married 63 Years, 1903, Hanover, York County, PA

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MARRIED 63 YEARS

Jacob March and Wife, of Near Wellsville,
Still in Good Health.

Jacob March, of Washington Township, aged 87 years, has been visiting his 
daughter, Mrs. Jacob Spahr, at York, during the past week.  Mr. March was born 
in Dover Township in 1816, and visited York for the first time with his father 
and his schoolmaster, George Croll, 80 years ago.  When they left town to go 
home, Mr. Croll told the father of Jacob March that his son "might live to the 
year 1900."

Another event took place at York of especial interest to Jacob March.  On the 
22d of December, 1840, he was married at York to Harriet Zinn, by Rev. Daniel 
Ziegler, pastor of the Reformed Church.  This was 63 years ago, and both Mr. and 
Mrs. March are still living.  They have two sons and eight daughters, all living 
and married and having families.

Mr. March voted first in 1836 for Martin Van Buren, who was elected President of 
the United States that year.  He was not quite 21 years old, but he voted on his 
size, being about six feet tall.  He served on a York County jury 60 years ago, 
and many times since.  For more than half a century he was a farmer in 
Washington Township.  He retired a few years ago and still lives in that 
township, midway between Kralltown and Wellsville.  He was for 17 years a School 
Director, 4 years Road Supervisor, and 2 years Tax Collector of Washington 
Township.

When he entered the court house at York with a companion during his recent 
visit, he said:  "Never mind the elevator.  I want to see the stairs of the 
court house."  So he walked up to the third floor without getting tired.  When 
asked whether he still worked on the farm, he said the last thing he did was to 
pick winter apples, but the trees were so loaded with fruit that the limbs hung 
low enough so that he could pick them from the ground.  He said:  "I hope to get 
home before all the corn is husked.  I want to help.  I always liked to husk 
corn ever since I was seven years old, and that was 80 years ago."

Evening Herald, Hanover, York County, PA, Tuesday, October 13, 1903