On Monday June 28, Mr. and Mrs. Herrick C. Slack, celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage, which occurred at Savannah, N.Y., June 28, 1849. They were married by Rev. David Ferris, then pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in that village.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Slack were born in Galen, Wayne county, where they lived until 1858. In that year they moved their home to Savannah, residing in that village until 1865, when they removed to the town of Conquest. For more than forty years they made their home in that pleasant locality, esteemed and respected by all. In 1905 they sold their farm and came to this village where they have since resided.
Mr. and Mrs. Slack are the parents of 7 children, all of whom are living, it being the remarkable fact that no death has occurred in their immediate family during the sixty years embracing in their married life. The children are William H Slack, of Ocean Park California; Arthur Slack, of Port Byron; Mrs. Mary A Treat, of Wilsonville, Neb.; Ida Slack, of Port Byron; Mrs. Levonia Ketchum, of Syracuse; Mrs. Delia Allen, of Conquest, and Mrs. Etta Partelow, of Throop. Mr. Slack attributes the good health, enjoyed by himself and family to the observances of God’s rules of life as found in His Word.
Mr. and Mrs. Slack experienced religion and affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church in Clyde in 1848, and during all these years they have lived close to the Great Master whom they love and revere.
In politics Mr. Slack is a Republican. He cast his first vote for Zachary Taylor in 1849. He was a charter member of the Republican party and voted for Millard Filmore in 1853 and has not since missed a vote at a presidential election. During his sojourn in the town of Conquest he filled the responsible office of assessor for 6 years, was justice of the peace 8 years, postmaster for two years. In church circles he has been equally prominent, having for years been a member of the official board of the church.
One of Mr. Slack’s pleasantries in that the year ’49 was a red-letter year in his life. In that year he attained his majority and cast his first vote, was married, joined the church all of which he remembers because gold was discovered in California in that year.
Should he live until August 14, Mr. Slack will celebrate his 81ST birthday, and although he has lived a decade beyond the limit of man, he is as alert, mentally and physically, as many twenty years his junior. To him a backward look reveals an array of tremendous events in the history of his county and the world.
Space will not permit enumeration, but he has witnessed many of the great movements that have progressed humanity and advanced civilization. A look forward is filled with splendor, beside which the glory of earth fades away, for by faith he beholds the Glory of God in the Salvation of men, and the eternal beauties of the Golden City where sorrow and pain can never come.