Mary & Walter

When I was fifteen I first saw and talked with Walter Ogden, and at that time I told me girl friend that Walt would be my husband someday. He came only occasionally to Joseph the next year or two, and walked me home from mutual or on a Sunday evening. I began to think much on him, although during the five years after I met Walter I had a number of boy friends. Some I went with quite steadily for a time, but my mind and affections always reverted back to Walter. We were married when I was twenty and he was twenty-two. So now I shall write of our lives together.

Our first home together was a two story apartment at 4 West and 2 South, rented from Charlesworth’s. Then during the winter we bought our first home at 160 South and 2 West in Richfield where we lived for forty-four years, except when we went to live on a farm for three years, and rented our home.