Anna E Boot
1830-
Born: Pennsylvania
Died: Russell, Lucas, Iowa, USA
<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"> <div> <div><strong style="color: #ffffff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-center; background-color: #666666;">Marble Rock Journal | Marble Rock, Iowa | Thursday, December 12, 1901 | Page 2</strong></div> <div> </div> <div>MARRIED AT LAST.</div> <div>A Lovers Quarrel of Fifty years</div> <div>Ago Made for at a Wedding</div> <div>In Russell.</div> <div> </div> <div>A lovers' quarrel of 50 rears' standing- was made up in Russell by the marriage</div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">of James H. Ogle, a wealthy</span></div> <div> <div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">farmer of Montgomery county, Ind.,</span></div> <div>and Mrs. Anna E. Ashba, of Russell.</div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <div>Fifty years ago James Ogle and Anna w<span style="font-size: 10pt;">ere sweethearts in Indiana,'</span></div> <div>They had gone to school together, and <span style="font-size: 10pt;">all their friends there thought there </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">was no doubt of their ultimate marriage</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, but a quarrel resulted in an estrangement , and a few months after</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> their disagreement both were married </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">to others. Mrs. Ashba never returned </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">to her Indiana home and did not hear</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> for years from Ogle. She became a </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">grandmother and finally a great grandmother before she heard of her </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Indiana lover.</span></div> <div> </div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Three years ago Mrs. Ashba's busband died, ant! she received n letter </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">of sympathy from Ogle. His wife had </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">died a few years before, he explained,</span></div> <div>and his children had all left home. <span style="font-size: 10pt;">It was not many months until the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Indiana man concluded he would like </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">to take a look at Iowa, and started</span></div> <div>from Crawfordsville for the home of <span style="font-size: 10pt;">his boyhood sweetheart. He made up </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">the quarrel. Mrs. Ashba maintained </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">that she was right, and" the elderly</span></div> <div>lover granted the point. The wedding <span style="font-size: 10pt;">was attended by many relatives, and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">great-grandchildren of both the "bride </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and groom witnessed the ceremony</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">•</span></div> </div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">Mr. and Mrs. Ogle left at once fo<span style="font-size: 10pt;">r </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Crawfordsville, where they will make </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">their home.</span></div> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>