This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ashcraft Blighton Hill Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RRB.2ACE/6170 Message Board Post: Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Ashcraft celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on Dec. 22nd, 1913, at their home at McKinstry surrounded by their brothers and sisters, children and grandchildren. The house was tastefully decorated in gold and white and the bride of fifty years ago wore a golden brown Irish linen trimmed with Irish crochet lace. When the guests were seated at the table Miss Mabel Hill sang a song composed for the occasion by Mrs. Gladys Potter. After the sumptous dinner a programme was given. Among the interesting numbers were a letter from the absent son, C. B. Ashcraft, of Boulder, Col., reminiscences of the bride and bride-groom and a poem recited by Mabel Hill, which was composed for the purpose. A. P. Ashcraft was born Feb. 17, 1839 in the town of Machias. He was married to Miss Adelaide Blighton of Warsaw who was formerly a school teacher in Machias, on Dec. 22nd, 1863, by Rev. J. H. Bayliss of Warsaw. On March 22, 1864, they purchased the old Ashcraft farm which they now occupy. Their first stove was an old Eagle which they purchased second hand for fifteen dollars and which is still doing service in their kitchen. They have seven children and eighteen grandchildren."