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    1. [HUNGARY] SZATHMARI 100th Wedding Anniversary
    2. Cheryl Wenberg
    3. The Deseret Evening News Great Salt Lake City, Utah Dec. 7, 1907 Married For A Century Diamond weddings are rare indeed, yet there has just been celebrated in the little Hungarian village of Isonbolgt? the anniversary of a wedding which it is declared occurred just 100 years ago. All the country is intensely interested, and the emperor has asked the authorities to forward to him official particulars so that he can personally congratulate the couple. The extraordinary couple are named SZATHMARI. The husband is 120 years old and the wife is 116. He was a farmer and was married at the age of 20. They have hundreds of descendants in and around the village. A score of years ago there was a celebration in honor of the man's 100th. birthday, and application was made to the Hungarian government for a pension. It was granted after the records of the village had been examined and the man's age verified. Four years later the woman was also granted a pension. The couple live in a modest cottage and are well looked after by relatives. They are nearly blind and very deaf, and sleep nearly all of the time. The man, however, still enjoys his pipe and a glass of wine, and neither is bedridden. It is a strange fact that in all their years they have never left the village and know nothing of the great world outside of Isonbolgi. They were both born there and have lived continuously in wedlock a quiet and peaceful life. The recent celebration of their hundredth wedding day was participated in by the entire village, which is very proud of having established, without doubt, a world's record. Detroit News Tribune

    10/01/2010 06:38:58