A Golden Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Church Celebrate It.
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A HAPPY WEDDED LIFE.
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Appropriately Celebrated at Their Home Today.
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Kindly Remembrances From Many Friends Who Have
Known and Appreciated Them. -- A Sketch of Their Lives.
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Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Church, No. 520 S. Seventh st. , today celebrated their golden wedding. From 2 to 6 o'clock a reception was held. Among the guests that called to express their good wishes for the health and happiness of the venerable couple, were Rev. Henry Tatlock and Rev. B. L. McElroy.
W. D. Church, of Detroit, with Parke, Davis & Co., accompanied by his wife and five children also spent the day here.
Elegant cake and wine were served. The cake consisted of 10 varieties all made by the aged brides own hands.
The callers all expressed the best wishes for the continued health and happiness of the couple.
Charles C. Church, was the son of W C. Church and born Feb. 18, 1824, at Avon, N. Y. With his parents he remove to Washtenaw county in 1832, settling in the township of Salem.
Mrs. Deborah Church, was the daughter of Ebenezar Green and born at Penfield near Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 18, 1826. She with her parents removed to Salem, Washtenaw county in 1849.
Charles and Deborah attended the same log school and they early regarded each other with favor. This ripened into love and Mar. 25, 1849, they were united in marriage, Rev. Adam Minnis officiating.
The young couple took a half days' outing with a horse and buggy which constituted their wedding trip.
They went to house keeping in a modest log house within sight of the school house where they had been taught not only to read and write, but had also learned to love each other.
Alter three years of happiness in the log cabin they moved to Northville where Mr. Church entered into partnership with his father in the grocery and blacksmith business Later they sold out and both purchased land on S. State st. and built homes.
In 1861 they sold out and moved to Chicago where they established a large mill pick business. After three years Charles C. Church returned to Ann Arbor and bought a brick house on S. University ave.
They lived there until seven years ago when they removed to their present home on S. Seventh st.
Mr. and Mrs. Church have been the parents of five children of whom only one survives. When they lived on S. University ave. they passed through a peculiarly sad experience in that their beautiful four year old baby boy drank by mistake some poison Cyanide of potasium which produced instant death. During the last 50 years of their lives Mr. and Mrs. Church have traveled very considerably.
They visited the centennial in Philadelphia. in 1881 they visited England to look up Mrs. Church's interests as one of the heirs in the Chase Townly estate estimated to lie worth $250,000,000. While they were in England the news came of President Garfield's assassination.
Mr. and Mrs. Church were remembered by many friends with beautiful and costly silver and gold spoons, six dishes, hair ornaments and a gold headed cane for Mr. Church. Some of the presents came from Grand Rapids friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Church have many relies of the old times.
Mrs. Church's father, old Squire Green was a chain maker. He made a dozen substantial chains for his daughter, which she has today. They are colonial style, therefore just in fashion.
The chief articles used on their table in the old log cabin consisting of heavy plates, an antique tea pot and a pepper box of big size.
Mrs. Church has also in a veil preserved condition her wedding slippers, which show that she had a very small, tiny foot.
Her husband says with a twinkle in his eye, that when he married his wife be could span his wife's waist with his two hands, today he could not with a dozen hands.
Mrs. Church likes to refer back to their happy days in Salem.
Their large circle of friends will unite with the Argus' best wishes and congratulations