This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/yNi.2ACEB/5426 Message Board Post: Saturday Sacramento Bee November 9, 1907 The Bee's Circulation Yesterday, 14,725 Copies GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), November 9 - This afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Alexander HENDERSON are entertaining their friends and acquaintances at a public reception in honor of their fiftieth wedding anniversary. This evening they will also receive, from 8 to 10, at their home at the corner of Henderson and Race Streets. Fifty years ago this hale and hearty old couple were united in marriage in a miner's cabin in Woodpecker Ravine, near where their present home stands. Mr. Henderson came here from Scotland in 1853 and went to mining in Woodpecker Ravine with nine others. Gradually he bought them out until only one partner was left. They found the ground very rich and worked by means of sluices. One day they took out a specimen worth $300. Another day they picked up one worth $500.Finally Henderson bought out his partner and operated alone. Having secured a competency, he settled down here and has seldom traveled far from this place. His wife, who was Miss Mary ACRHIBALD, accompanied the family of John SMITH from Scotland in 1857 to this city. As may be supposed Henderson and Miss Archibald had been sweethearts back in bonnie Scotland, and the little winged god had something to do with her long trip out to the wilds of California. Soon after her arrival the wedding took place at the Smith place. "I hope every young couple will be as happy as we've been," said the sturdy old Scot, in speaking of his long married life. "We've been through considerable, and I'm proud to say we've never had a quarrel. Man, when ye're married to a girl like that, yu've got a jewel." As may be noticed, Mr. Henderson, though fifty-four years in America, still possesses a most delightful Scotch dialect. Both he and his guid wife are frae awa' up Edinburg way. They have reared a family to be proud of, and now in the afternoon of life are still sweethearts, esteemed by every resident of the city.