Married 74 Years

MURRAY, BAKER

Posted By: Laura (email)
Date: 12/28/2007 at 09:24:57

Residents of Black Hawk County since their births, during the Civil War, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Murray have been married for nearly three-quarters of a century.

Their wedding took place nearly 74 years ago, on Aug. 19, 1880, by a justice of the peace at Jefferson, now Denver. The former Olive Baker of Janesville was 17 years old and her young husband was 18. Mr. Murray's parents were pioneer residents of Cedar Falls, having come there by ox team from New York in 1852.

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