Wedded Sixty Years

Apropos of theoelebrationof tbe 6Oth anniversary of tbe marriage of Mr. and IVIrs. Robert Howlett, of Lyndon, not-j iced in these columns last week, the 1 loawing interesting facts oonoermng ! them niay prove of interest to many of our readers. On June 3, 1838, Robert Howlett and Elizabeth Bates, of the Town of Tydd, Cambridgeshire, England, walked flve miles to the oburoh where they were married, walking back home after the oeremony. They immediately began honsekeeping, and both worked out on tbe farms by the day for a living. By eoonomy and industry they bought a little home of their own where tbey lived 11 yuars aud on which flve soas, William and Robert, of Bnnkerhill, Thomas, of Unadilla, John of Lyndou, and Fred, of Ann Arbor, were born. In October, 1849, they sold their home in England and ounverted into I money eyerything they possessed, and with their family turned their faces resolutely westward with the hope of bettering not only their own coudition in life bnt tbat of their family. After a tedious journey of six weeks they arrived safely 'in Dexter in November, 1849. Their sole earthly wealth being $4.84, and not an acqnaintance or plaoe to lay their heads. They seoured a place of shelter with a family by tbe name of Cnley, a mile east of Dexter, and here tbe father resolutely faced the "wolf" and kept him f rom tbe door by workine at 25 cents a dav. Ha wnrkflrï out a year or two at snoh work aa he oonld get, ditohing, grubbing and at anytbing and everything honorable. At the end of two years be fouud that he had not only supported bis family, bnt had saved $100, and be used tbat as the first payment on a farm in Lyudon wbere bis son Jobn now lives. The family moved npon the farm without a team or a tooi of any kind, just empty-banded. Steers were taken and broken for their use, and the motber and children cleared up the farm and raiaed the crops while the father oontinued to work for the farmera of the neighborbood at ditobing and grubbing and other work until tbe farm was 3aid for. Then another farm was jought near by and tbe wife and sods attended crops and Mr. flowlett continued bis working ont. This is in brief the story of tbeir sucoess. And now wbile life's sbadows gather they are permitted to enjoy tbe fruits of a wel! spent life, and see children, grandobildren and great gracdchildren gatber about them and do them honor or baving braved tbe perils of the sea and of pioneer life for tbem. Mr. ïowlett is one of four boys; two otbers oame over soon after he oame. All bree have been wei! and favotably known in this vioinity for nearly half a century. Bis venerable brother ?bomas and wife now live near Manith, the otber brotber William died ome years ago from an aocident. He waa the fatber of William J., of Ann Arbor, Spence, of Waterloo, and James, of Lyndon, well and favorably known The experiences of these brothers were similar in that poverty was their inberitance as well as thrift nd economy.