Hi all! Just want to share this article. There are names other than the family I am researching plus I thought you all might think it interesting. Hope some of you benefit! Pam gennut@nauticom.net SHARON COUPLE WED 63 YEARS.....................Sharon Herald, 1922, pg. 12 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick McMahon of North Sharon are the oldest married couple in Mercer County. They have been married 63 years, their anniversary falling in May. Patrick McMahon and Bridget McNerney, born within 14 miles of each other in County Clare, Ireland, met for the first time when youth and maid in Canada, and were married at Trent, Ont., near Belleville, by Father Britton, then pastor of the Catholic parish at that place. The chimes of life's Vesper Years and their wedding bells blend in a sweet harmony of memories and like a benediction fill the calm and placid hours of Age as a just reward for lives well spent. When married the couple settled down at Trent, where Mr. McMahon was lumberman. He recalls that then he received 50 cents a day for cording wood and that two cords was a good day's work. He was 24 then and his bride about the same age. The couple lived for 10 years in Canada and in Maine. They then went to Buffalo, N. Y., where Mr. McMahon worked on the Lake Shore & North East Railroad for five years. The family then moved to North East, near Erie, and then on Ash Wednesday, 1872, Mr. McMahon came to Sharon to work in the Old Mill for James Westerman, who he calls "The best man ever in Sharon." "In those days, in good times," he said, "the puddlers got $9 a ton and when pay was low $4.50, while laborers got as high as $1.50 and $1.75 and as low as $1 a day. The stores along State street were up on stilts. If you got off the sidewalks you got into mud and a lot of trouble. At what is now the McDowell Bank corner, one had to stick to the walk or sink in the street. Father O'Keefe was the priest here then. The burgess was either James Wilson or A. G. Whitcraft. The East Hill was known as "Carver's Hill." Soon after Mr. McMahon came to Sharon he sent for his family. They lived first on what is now known as upper Railroad street and later in the vicinity of the present Cave and Sharpsville avenues. In 1888 the family moved to McMahon Corners, now in North Sharon. "They said I was a fool for going so far out in the country," commented Mr. McMahon to a Herald man yesterday. "There were only three houses here then--Charles Heinz, Mrs. Gills' and our own." Today the McMahon home is ideally located at the gateway of beautiful Buhl Farm and the center of a handsome residential district. Six children came to bless the union. The children are Mrs. Ella McMahon Manley, Mis Mary McMahon, John McMahon, Michael McMahon, Mrs. Bridget English, (deceased), and Katherine McMahon, who died when a small girl. There are also 19 living grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. McMahon are happy as in those first glad days in Canada. They have lived well and long and in their hearts there still ring those wedding bells, for they are sweethearts still.