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Aug 4. 1873
An Old Time Wedding. 

On Monday morning forty six years ago, at 5 o'clock, the couple who have kept house longer than any other married people in the lower portion of the city, were married in an old stone house, since torn down, in upper Kingston, Dominic Gossman performing the ceremony. After the wedding the bride and groom embarked in their own wagon and left for a wedding trip among the friends and relatives of the bride in Orange county, stopping at Springtown to breakfast. The wagon in which this trip was performed had on the first pair of elliptic springs ever manufactured in Ulster county. Mr. Martin Miner, blacksmith, who died yesterday in upper Kingston was the maker, and he made the second set for Mr. Philip Hornbeck, a hospitable country gentleman whom any of our readers will remember, though the grass has been green and the snow fallen above his resting place in the quiet grave-yard on the old farm in Rochester these many year. 

The couple, a brief bit of whose history we have sketched, now reside in a house where more than twenty years of their lives have been passed, and in which the death angel has never entered, though sons went to the front during the late war. The house mentioned has been the scene of weddings, and grand children to the bride and groom of six and forty years agone have first opened their eyes upon what has proved a beautiful world to them even thus far, when some of them have almost reached the estate of men and women. Providence has dealt kindly by the couple who are now in the evening of their days, and sons and daughters, unto the third generation, rise up and call them blessed. We imagine not many brides no-a-days are married at five o'clock in the morning, and ride twenty miles to breakfast. 
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R??? Daily Freeman Aug 4" 1873. The 46 anniversary of my Father and Mothers wedding. 
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