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Reunion At Mooreville

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
January
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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_ A very . pleasant and enioyable time was had at the residence of I. E. Badley, at the Joseph Shaw homestead, the 3oth uit., it being the occasion of a gathering of cousins, descendants of James Fellows who settled in this county many years ago with his family consisting of three sous and four' daughters, Leonard and James H. located in Sharon, Festus A. and Mrs. Phebc Hunt in Lodi, Mrs. Enma Gillett and Mrs. Cintha Winton in Freedom, and Mrs. Roxey Shaw near Mooreville. These have all "nassed over the river." For many years this family held a reunión the 5th of January, that being the birthday of Phebe and Leonard. Those joyous times are fresh in the minds of 'those who survive them,and these recollections prompted their reorganization by the surviving relatives, but remováis and sickness made many a "vacant chair." The following, however, answered to roll-call: R. K. Fellows and wife, of Sharon. C. M. Fellows and wife, of Ypsilanti, E. P. Harper and wife and Mrs. e! W. Wallace, of Saline, Henry Leason and wife, of Manchester, Mrs. Ella Robison and daughter, of K.entucky, A. C. Mclntyre and L. E. Bradley, with their families, of Mooreville. Mrs. Robison read sorae letters which her great-grandmother, Phebe Fellows, had written for the sth of January gatherings of from 1852 to 1858. They were full of anxious and thoughtful solicitude for "her children, grand-children and great grand-children then present." The records show that she died at the advanced age of 94. To that all had a splendid time at Kuther's would express it but faintly, pnd each resolved to share in a 11 uthering hereafter.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News