This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thorp, Nickolson Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/2020 Message Board Post: The NEBRASKA CITY NEWS. Oct. 27, 1877.--"CRYSTAL WEDDING. Mrs. and Mrs. E. F. Thorpe. Celebrate the Fifteenth Anniversary of their Wedlock.".--Invitations during the past week had been sent out to many of the warm and personal friends of Councilman Thorp and his good lady inviting their presence at their home on the evening of the 19th of October, the occasion being the fifteenth anniversay of their union, or, as it is commonly called, their crystal wedding. The storm, which has been raging, you might say, for the past week, and been hoped would abate before the announced evening; but as the evening drew on, the clouds showed no disposition to break, and the rain came down in torrents, and so it was that an event that many had looked forward to with so much pleasure and special enjoyment, had to be dispensed with, as far as the reception was concerned, much to regret of Mr. and Mrs. Thorpe, as well as hundreds of their warn and personal friends in this city. Mr. Thorpe may well be classed among the pioneers of this county, having arrived in East Nebraska City in the year 1857, residing there until 1868, when he came to this city. In 1862, finding it was not good for man to live alone, he took to himself a partner and at once became a Benedict. His bride, nee Miss Nickolson, was the acknowledged belle of Marshaltown, Iowa, her father being one of the then prominent men of that town. Life since then, during the past fiteeen years, has been as but one continuous day of sunshine with the happy couple, no dark clouds of unhappiness or misfortune ever crossing the threshold of their happy home....