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.