CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY-------1932

GRANDMA and GRANDPA PURVIS---Thomas and Jane (Baxter) Purvis
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Mr. and Mrs. T.M. Purvis celebrated their golden Wedding anniversary Tuesday, November 8, 1932 at their home in Lemonweir a short distance northeast of the city of Mauston. The family gathered in honor of the happy occasion on Sunday, Nov. 6th, 1932.

Tom Purvis and Jane Baxter were married at New LISBON, November 8th, 1882. They started housekeeping on the Purvis homestead in the town of Lemonweir immediately afterward and since that time have lived there.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Purvis are pioneers of Juneau County, their parents having come to this county in the early days of its history. Mr. Purvis was born in Rock County and his parents moved onto the farm in Lemonweir when he was only a year old. He is now 78. Mrs. Purvis came from Waukesha County with her parents when she was a small child and they made their home on a farm a short distance southwest of New Lisbon until her marriage. She is now 73 years old.`

Mr. and Mrs. Purvis have been classed among the most successful farmers in the county for many years and during the years built one of the most attractive farm homesteads in the county. A few years ago, they retired to a certain extent from the active labors of the farm and built a comfortable bungalow for themselves across the road. Their son, Leslie , and family moved into the large house on the farm which he now manages. There were probably few men in the locality better known than Tom Purvis during the days when he was able to be active in community affairs. The past few years his eyesight has been failing and he cannot get about as well as formerly.

They have two daughters and two sons, Mrs. Lewis (Alice) Cattle of Lindina, Mrs. Anthony Svoboda, (Lillian) of Lyndon, Leslie , of the homestead in Lemonweir, and Norman of Beloit , Their children and their families, and other relatives and friends gathered at their home Sunday to observe the fiftieth anniversary and to wish them many more years.