Walter Marsh & Mary Ross Ogden 99th Wedding Anniversary October 5, 2009

At the close of his (Walter’s) second year at B.Y.U. we became engaged and were married October 5, 1910 in the Salt Lake Temple. There were seventy-nine couples married at that session, which lasted all day. We were in the temple twelve hours before we were married. Because of it being such a large group and so many hours, they passed buns and a bucket of water with a dipper for all of us to drink from in the afternoon. About fifty of the young men who were married that day left on trains that night for missions throughout the world.

In early 1960, we were reminded it was time to celebrate our fiftieth or golden anniversary. So during the months we planned with our family and on September 3^rd, we had a lovely family party with a banquet. There was an open house entertainment at Olive’s home in the evening with more than five hundred guests. It was truly a very special day for us. All of our children with their companions, and all of our grandchildren were with us to celebrate. There was a very lovely program given during the banquet hour, and in the evening our children helped us receive the many guests who called.