Faulk County, South Dakota

Faulk County, South Dakota

Anniversaries

SOURCE: Faulk County Record, Thursday, April 9, 1891, Page 4
Contributed by Harold Way

ROCKHAM

The friends and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Rist met at their home on Friday the 27th day of March 1891 to celebrate the fifty-fifth anniversary of their wedding day. This is one of the unusual events that happens so seldom that not one person among the guests remembered of such an occurrence.

Grandfather Rist as he is familiarly called was born in Vermont in 1812 and is now almost 89 years old. He will be remembered as one of the persons in Faulk county during the last presidential campaign that voted for Harrison in 1840.

Mr. Rist came to Dakota after he was past three score and ten to make him a home, and laughs at the hard time in Dakota and says they are nothing as compared to the hard times in Vermont when he was a boy.

Mr. and Mrs. Rist were married in Cuyayua county New York on the 27th of March 1836. What a vast amount of history they have lived to see made in the United States in that time.

Source: The Republican-Record, (Faulkton, South Dakota) Thursday, July 12, 1894, Page 8
Contributed by Harold Way

AFTER FIFTY YEARS

Golden Wedding Celebrated at the Home of Milton Johnson.

A most happy social event occurred at the residence of President Milton Johnson, of the Citizen’s National bank, on North Water street, yesterday. The occasion was the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of Mrs. Johnson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Evans, of Waukesha, Wis.

Besides the bride and groom of half a century other members of the family from abroad were present as follows:
- A. L. Evans, wife and two children, from Denver, Colo.
- E. J. Evans, wife and one child, from Waukesh, Wis.
- A. E. Evans, wife and three children, from Faulkton, S.D.

These three families, together with that of Mrs. Johnson, and including the bride and groom, comprised the entire members of the family of the honored guests of the occasion, twenty-two in number. There were no formal exercises but impromptu after dinner remarks were indulged in by various members of the family and Mr. Johnson in behalf of the children and grand-children, presented the father of the family with a beautiful cane, and the mother with an elegant bound Oxford Bible. The can was an ebony stick, gold headed and silver tip. The head was engraved with the name of the receiver and the words, “July 3, 1844 – July 3, 1894.” The souvenirs of the occasion were sterling silver spoons, with lacquered work, appropriately engraved, and presented to the different members of the family by Mr. and Mrs. Johnson.

The honored guests of the occasion were married at Lockport, N. Y., July 3, 1844, and two years after removed to the vicinity of Milwaukee, Wis., where as pioneers of that section they cleared away the forest and cultivated the old homestead, five miles from the present city limits, where all the children except the eldest, Mrs. Johnson, were born. Mr. Evans still retains this old homestead, but he and his wife now reside in the beautiful and well known watering place the village of Waukesha. Although aged respectively 75 and 73 years, they are hearty old people and bid fair to enjoy many more years of life and the society of their children.