Coyle - James - 60th
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday 31 May 1901
Note: James and Anna (Thompson) Coyle on their 60th wedding anniversary
Note: James and Anna (Thompson) Coyle on their 60th wedding anniversary
Tuesday at their home on West Wabash Avenue, Mr. and Mrs. James Coyle celebrated with their children the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage. Of the twelve children born to this excellent couple nine are still living and were present at the celebration. They are James Coyle, of Toronto, Canada; Dr. Robert Coyle, of Denver; Mrs. Edward Keskeys, of Joplin, Mo.; Miss Elizabeth Coyle, of this city; Mrs. Margaret Smith, of Montpelier, Ohio; Mrs. Sarah Brimacombe, of Houghton, Mich.; Campbell Coyle, of Toledo, Ohio; Henry Coyle, of Crawfordsville; and Amos Torrence, of Worcester, Mass.
The day was passed quietly and only the family participated in the celebration, although numerous neighbors dropped in to offer their congratulations and best wishes. A few days since Mrs. Coyle gave a representative of The Journal a short sketch of her marriage. She said: “We were married in the Episcopal Church at Coberg, Ontario, on May 28, 1841. Mr. Coyle and I had grown up on farms not far apart, and on our wedding day we and all the guests drove to the church in Coberg in wagons, quite a long line of them winding over the hills into the town. We were Presbyterians, all of us, but the Presbyterian minister at Coberg was then visiting in the old country so to the Episcopal Church we went and were married. After the marriage we drove back to my father’s farm where the floor of the big barn was cleared for a dance and it was a jolly one we had. There was a wedding feast too, of course, but we were all plain country people and there was none of the show that attached to weddings nowadays. Still, I guess, we all had as good a time as we could have had under any circumstances.
After our wedding we went to housekeeping on a farm of our own. Father Coyle had given us one hundred acres and my father stocked it so we began life well enough off. In 1864 we moved to Michigan and lived there until 1878 when we came to Crawfordsville, where we have since lived. Our boys wanted to attend college here and, indeed, Robert had already been graduated.”
Both Mr. and Mrs. Coyle are in excellent health and bid fair to celebrate their diamond wedding. They are both happy and contented and enjoy the rest to which their useful and busy lives have entitled them.
Mr. Coyle is a native of Ireland, having been born at Cote Hill, County of Caven, in October, 1818. He was taken when quite small to Canada by his parents, however, and there grew to manhood.
Mrs. Coyle was born on Sir James Pringle’s estate, Torwood Lee, near Galashiels, Scotland, in 1822, and like her husband, was taken as a child by her parents to Canada.
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