John and Susanna Webb 50th Wedding

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Marriage Notes for JOHN WEBB and SUSANNA PERRETT:
from THE MOLINE REVIEW  July 6, 1900
A GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY AND A WEDDING

To reach the fiftieth annual recurrence of the wedding day is an event so rare, even in those couples who are most happily mated, as to be worthy of notice.  Such an event occured in Moline, Kansas, Sunday, July 1, 1900.  Its celebration was deferred unti Monday afternoon and evening when the happy event received due recognition.

In the year 1850 John Webb led his bride to the altar of the Pottern Church where her membership rested.  It was an Episcopalian church in England and there the young curate pronounced for them the marrigage ceremony according to its honored ritual.  From that time until this, their lives have been truly blended while the varied experiences common to life's pilgrimage have been theirs.

"Sometimes, mid scenes of deepest gloom;
Sometimes, where Eden's bowers bloom."

Faithfully, have they, as one, trodden the smooth or rugged way for half a hundred years, divinely led.  Today, crowned with blessings and surrounded with loved ones, they look cheerfully out to the home whose very streets are golden.

Three years of wedded life were spent in the mother country, then America became their adopted land, since 1871 Kansas has been the home.

To this golden wedding but few invitations were given because the family is large.  All of the six children were in attendance and nearly all of the seventeen grandchildren, also one great grand child.

Mr. Webb is 81 years old and Mrs. Webb is 73.

At five o'clock, an event, in beautiful harmony with the occasion occurred.  The guests were called to the parlor where the only unmarried child, Mrs. Maud Webb Hibbard, quickly became Mrs. Charles Prier.  The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. P. Armstrong, pastor of the M. E. church, assisted by the Rev. J. D. Smith and Rev. W. C. Goodwin.  Then came the sumptuous repast, the tables being spread upon the beautifully shaded lawn.  The occasion was a very happy one and many valuable tokens of esteem were presented.  we here copoy in full a card accompanying one from the Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E. church, of which Mother Webb is president:
"The house is full of life and light,
It is the golden wedding day.----Longfellow
To Grandpa and Grandma Webb."

"As you go down the shaded slope of life, we place this rug in your pathway on this 'Golden Wedding Day.'  Accept this gift from the Aid Society as a reminder of our love and esteem."                 W.C.G.