Note: Living with Dick (58) and Mec (56) were Mary (20), Gory (14) and grandson Dale 3y 2m. Garrett Sheets was also living with them. He was the same age as Gory. His mother had died. Garrett and Gory were listed as farm laborers.
CELEBRATED THURSDAY Home of Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Burnett at Crown City is Scene of Party (By W.A. Lanier) Monday, Oct. 26, 1931, being the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. R.W. (Dick) Burnett of Route 2, Crown City, the happy event was made a festive occasion just one month later on Thanksgiving day, Nov. 26, when three score or more of their friends and relatives assembled at the home to participate in the celebration of their Golden Wedding.
Plans for the event were quietly formulated by Mr. and Mrs. Burnett's friends several days in advance and the good couple were not apprised of the arrangements until Thursday morning when the celebrants began swarming about the place, entering the house by the back doors as well as the front. The surprise was so sudden that Dick didn't even have time to hunt up his 'biled shirt,' but had to receive his friends informally and was soon busy helping rearrange the furniture and lengthening out the tables about the rooms.
The guests had brought with them numerous boxes and baskets containing roasted turkeys, baked chickens and other choice foods of the season and these were spread on the tables to await the announcement of the dinner hour.
When that hour arrived and everything was in readiness all the folks gathered around the festal board and Rev. Harry Ensley conducted the customary devotionals and then proceeded to act as master of ceremonies throughout the rest of the festivities.
It is reported that owing to the reverend gentleman's predilection for baked chicken he forgot his ministerial avocation, except that already alluded to, and proceeded to thoroughly enjoy the bounteous and nourishing feast. Other guests dropped in during the dinner house and if anyone went away without an appeased appetite it was due to timidity, and timidity is not usually a characteristic of those who participate in events like this.
Mr. and Mrs. Buirnett were married in Gallipolis and have resided in this neighborhood during all their fifty years of wedded life. In the course of this time dick had forgotten the officials' name who "tied the know," but is satisfied that whoever he was he did a good job.
Mr. and Mrs. Burnett's youngest son, Gory, who has been in the navy for several years, happened to be at home on his annual furlough over Thanksgiving and to the old folks this lent more joy to the occasion. All around, it was an event of more than ordinary enjoyment and their many friends express the hope that their future anniversaries will be no less pleasant than this one.
The guests present were Mrs. L.C. Halley, Re. and Mrs. Harry Ensley, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Sheets, Miss Melba Brammer, Mrs. Blanche McElhaney, Carl McElhaney and Elsie Rouk of Huntington; Mr. and Mrs. T.g. Mechling and daughter Kathryn Jane of North Kenova; Mr. and Mrs. J.j. Sheets,Mrr. and Mrs. Parker Sheets and Miss Gertrude Sheets of Bidwell; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stevers and son Blaine and Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Fite of Columbus; Mrs. Goldie Niday and children Burnett and Eloise, Mrs. Frank Robinson and children Jimmie and Martha and Mrs. Hulda Cofer of Gallipolis; Mr. and Mrs. James Sheets, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Sheets and children Myron, Marvin, and Rosela; Mrs. Stanley Thornton and children Dale, Melba May, John and Thomas Richard of Crown City; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Burnett and daughter Dorothy Jo of Cheshire; Mr. and Mrs. T.F. Burnett and children Morris, Helen, Rachel, Ruth [actually Rachel Ruth], Woodrow, Vinton, Clyde, Claude, Robert and Mary Ann of Kanauga; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mossman of Middleport; Mr. and Mrs. [Emily Susan Sheets, a sister] Joe Garlic of Platform; and Gory Burnett of Norfolk, Va.
Memories
Note: (not sure who said this) "When I was a kid, there was no place I'd rather go than to Dick and Mecs. They was down-to-earth people. They'd say, 'all of you'uns come back!"
Note: Grandpa was the funniest man you ever saw. He was nice looking, short. He drank quite a lot--maybe an alcoholic. We used to drive him to John's to get tobacco, chewing tobacco. He'd say, "How much gasoline you got?" Let's go to town! He wanted to hide whiskey in the weeds. The next morning he would be hunting for it; he couldn't find it. He'd go on a binge in town for a week or more. When he came home he was the sickest man you ever seen. He'd spit tobacco juice into the fireplace. Grandma used to say, "You've been there drinking that old hell soup!"
Take Route #790 to Perregan to Mercerville, the Tad Smith home- past the road to Cofer Holler--over a little bridge--first house on the right--there's a little creek with gooseberries nearby. There is a story about kids visiting Grandma & Grandpa who found the gooseberries and ate them. Grandpa, when they came home, said, "By the way, I forgot to tell you: don't eat the gooseberries. They're poison!" I knowed they already had a bellyful.
Note: Grandpa Burnett put his bottles under the smokehouse. He started crying one day and said, "One day these tears will all be bottled up." Grandma said, "Well, you'll have plenty of bottles to put them in!"
Grandpa would sit in his chair and pat his hands and feet and make the prettiest music.
Grandpa used to say, "study your work." He expected others to do good work. He built roads, was a stone mason. He also peddled, half-traded horses and cows.
Court of Common Pleas Richard Burnett Date of Death--1938 December 9th Condition (Married, Single or Widowed) --[He was married] Age--Years 1861 Months 4 Days 25 Place of Death Guyan Township Place of Birth -- Occupation -- Father -- Mother-- Color white Cause of Death chronic dilation of heart Last Place of Residence Gallia County, Ohio Record of Deaths Vol. 4 Page 42
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