MR. AND MRS. J. E. HIMES CELEBRATED THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING AT THEIR HOME IN GLENCOE SUNDAY SEPT 11 1927 THEY WERE MARRIED 50 YEARS AGO THE 23RD OF AUGUST AT KNOXVILLE, IOWA BY REV. BLY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH MR. R. M. SMITH ACTING AS BEST MAN. AND MISS ANN WILLIAMS AS BRIDESMAID, WHO LATER BECAME MRS. R. M. SMITH, AND AGAIN THEY WERE PRESENT LAST SUNDAY AND TALKED OVER THE DAY WHEN MISS MATILDA SMITH BECAME THE WIFE OF MR. J. E. HIMES THIRTY SEVEN RELATIVES AND NEIGHBORS CAME WITH FILLED BASKETS AND SEVERAL BEAUTIFUL PRESENTS TO REMIND THEM THEY HAD NOT BEEN FORGOTTEN OWING TO UNAVOIDABLE CIRCUMSTANCES THE DAY WAS NOT CELEBRATED UNTIL LAST SUNDAY. MR. AND MRS. HIMES HAVE 4 CHILDREN LIVING ALL OF WHOM WERE PRESENT THOSE PRESENT WERE MR. AND MRS. F. E. HIMES OF STILLWATER OK. MR. AND MRS. W. H. HIMES OF YALE OK. MRS. W. O. BROYLES OF STILLWATER, MR. AND MRS. F. P. JONES GLENCOE. GRAND CHILDREN PRESENT WERE MR. AND MRS. CHAS. KINZIE, RIPLEY MISS LEXIE HIMES, STILLWATER MR OLIVER HIMES, YALE MR. CLARENCE BROYLES STILLWATER ORVILLE AND RUTH BROYLES, STILLWATER CRYSTAL, EILEEN AND WALLACE JONES, GLENCOE GREAT GRAND CHILDREN PRESENT PAULINE, RAYMOND AND LEWIS KENZIE,MARIE AND IRENE BROYLES, OF RIPLEY. GLENCOE OKLAHOMA FRIDAY FEB 18 1926 OBITUARY NEWSPAPER N. P. BROYLES ANSWERS THE FINAL ROLL CALL THE END CAME PEACEFULLY EARLY SUNDAY NIGHT NELSON PAGE BROYLES, SON OF MARY AND CHRISTOPHER BROYLES WAS BORN JUNE 10, 1844 IN BROOK COUNTY, KE. AND PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME IN GLENCOE ,OK. FEBRUARY 13 1927 AT THE AGE OF 82 YEARS 8 MONTHS AND 23 DAYS. HE HAD SUFFERED THE PAST YEAR WITH HEART COMPLICATIONS AND HIS DEATH WAS NOT UNEXPECTED. AT THE AGE OF 12 HE WAS REMOVED BY HIS PARENTS TO SULLIVAN CO,. MISSOURI, WHERE HE GREW TO YOUNG MANHOOD. AT THE AGE OF 18 HE ENLISTED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY, COMPANY A, 23RD REGIMENT VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, AND SERVED HIS COUNTRY UNTIL PEACE WAS DECLARED AND THE ARMY DISBANDED. HIS FIRST COMMAND WAS UNDER GEN. SIEGEL, SUCCESSOR OF GEN. LYONS, WHO FELL IN BATTLE. UNDER GEN. SEIGEL HE DID HIS PART OF CLEARING THE STATE OF MISSOURI OF THE ENEMY AND THEN PASSED INTO THE DEPARTMENT COMMANDED BY GEN. SHERMAN AND WITH HIM, MADE THAT FAMOUS MARCH TO THE SEA WHICH ULTIMATELY ENDED THE WAR, IN THE YEAR 1865 HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO HANNAH COTTER AND TO THIS UNION TEN CHILDREN WERE BORN, TWO OF WHOM HAVE PROCEEDED THE FATHER INTO THE GREAT BEYOND. HE IS SURVIVED BY THE WIFE OF HIS YOUTH AND EIGHT OF HIS CHILDREN, ALL OF WHOM WERE PRESENT AT HIS BEDSIDE EXCEPT THE OLDEST DAUGHTER MARY JANE DAVIS, OF LOS ANGELOS, WHOSE HEALTH WOULD NOT PERMIT HER ATTENDANCE. THE OTHER CHILDREN ARE LUCY CROCKER, OF PAWNEE, EFFIE HIMES AND MATTIE JONES, OF STILLWATER AND J. C. AND NELSON BROYLES OF GLENCOE. HE WAS ALSO SURVIVED BY 43 GRANDCHILDREN AND 50 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN ONE SISTER MRS. IDA CRANE OF OILTON, OKLA. AND TWO BROTHERS, JAMES AND JOHN BROYLES OF KIRKSVILLE MO. BESIDES A HOST OF OTHER RELATIVES. IN 1877 HE MOVED FROM HOWELL COUNTY, MO. TO CRAWFORD COUNTY KANS.. WHERE HE RESIDED FOR 13 YEARS. IN 1891 HE CAME WITH HIS FAMILY TO PAYNE COUNTY,OK. DRIVING THROUGH WITH OX TEAMS. TWO YEARS LATER HE MADE THE RACE INTO THE CHEROKEE STRIP AND SECURED A HOMESTEAD ONE MILE EAST OF GLENCOE, WHERE HE MADE HIS HOME FOR 16 YEARS. LATER ON HE MOVED INTO GLENCOE, WHERE HE HAS RESIDED EVER SINCE AND WHERE HE DIED