Another
milestone was passed on Friday last, April 6th, by Mr. and Mrs. Louis
[sic] Barber of Boston, Norfolk's longest wedded couple, when they
celebrated the 64th anniversary of their marriage.
Mr. Barber is now 87 years old
and although not enjoying the best of health, he continues mentally
alert and active. His wife, only a few months younger, is still
capable of carrying on the duties of her household just as she has for
these past sixty-four years.
Mr. Barber was born on the
same farm where they live today, on Feb-ruary 28th, 1847 and has lived
there all his life with the exception of two years in Denver,
Col.
He has been a member of the
Baptist Church for 66 years, and recalls when the present Boston
church was built in 1851.
With his father, Henry Barber,
he went to the Bell Homestead near Brantford to hear the first
recorded telephone message from there to Paris.
Mrs. Barber is the daughter of
the late Rev. Joel Reddick and Mrs. Reddick and was born near Cobourg
in 1847, and moved with her parents to Boston in 1868 and on April 6,
1870 she was married to Louis Barber.
There were seven children, six
of whom are living: Fred of Regina, Mrs. Nellie Oxley at home, Harry
of St. Catharines, Lloyd of Beverley Hills, California, and Carroll of
Brantford, Frank of Boston and one adopted daughter, Edythe Reddick of
Beverley Hills, Cal.
There are seven grandchildren
and one great grandchild.
