St. Lawrence U.E.L. and Family Histories Newspaper Project

Alternate Text(Ms. Agnes Alguire)

Anniversaries(A) * Anniversaries

District Couple are Married for 60 Years

To the left of the article is a picture of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Scott. Mr. Scott is bald and is wearing a dark suit with a light shirt. He is wearing a dark coloured bow tie. Mr. Scott is wearing a boutonniere of a light flower that looks like a rose. Mrs. Scott has short, white hair, and is wearing dark coloured glasses. She is wearing a patterned suit with a black border. She is wearing a light coloured necklace. She is wearing a corsage of an unknown flower pinned to her suit jacket.

***

NEWINGTON-Mr. and Mrs. Henry Scott observed the 60th anniversary of their wedding here quietly, yet in good health and appreciating the congratulations of family and friends. They received numerous cards and congratulations, including one from Hon. Lucien Lamoureu, Speaker of the House of Commons.

They were married on May 13, 1908 by the Baptist minister, Rev. Ebenezer Cameron. For several years the Scotts were farmers until they moved to the village where they took care of Mrs. Scott’s father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Warner.

Mr. Scott’s father was Robert Scott and his mother was Agnes Alguire. before her marriage. There were five sons in this family, two of whom survive. The Warner family, however, was more numerous still, for there were ten children, of whom three are still living. Three of the Warner boys serving during WWI, one of them killed in action at Ypres.

Although Mr. Scott was born July 2, 1881, and Mrs. Scott in 1886, both of them are in what they describe as “pretty good health”. They have a garden and enjoy their little home in the centre of the village. They have no children, but they reared a niece, the former Jean Scott, who lost her mother when she was just over three years old. She is now Mrs. Jack Burrows and lives in Belleville.

Henry Scott was a railroad man on the old New York Central which used to run through the village. He was severely injured in an accident at the time the former International Bridge was being planked and had a leg amputated in 1933. They are both active Baptist Church members.

One of the chief ways in which they marked the anniversary was to go to Belleville with Mr. and Mrs. Murray Neville, for dinner with Mrs. Burrows and her family. Guests on that occasion were Mr. and Mrs. Donald Eldridge and family of Rochester, N.Y. and Mrs. Robert Scott of LeRoy, N.Y.