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SCOTTSBORO, Ala. - A Scottboro couple recently celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary, one of the longest marriages among living people when compared to reports in the 2007 Guinness Book of World Records.
Alonzo, 97, and Beulah Sims, 94, celebrated their anniversary a day early Sunday at the nursing home where they have lived since May 2002.
Without their families' approval, the two teens married in 1927, when he was working at a farm, plowing fields with a mule and picking cotton for 50 cents a day.
Ala. couple celebrate 80th anniversary - Yahoo! News (broken link)
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. - A Scottboro couple recently celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary, one of the longest marriages among living people when compared to reports in the 2007 Guinness Book of World Records.
Alonzo, 97, and Beulah Sims, 94, celebrated their anniversary a day early Sunday at the nursing home where they have lived since May 2002.
Without their families' approval, the two teens married in 1927, when he was working at a farm, plowing fields with a mule and picking cotton for 50 cents a day.
Ala. couple celebrate 80th anniversary - Yahoo! News (broken link)
married men do not live longer. it just seems longer.
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Ala. couple celebrate 80th anniversary
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. - A Scottboro couple recently celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary, one of the longest marriages among living people when compared to reports in the 2007 Guinness Book of World Records.
Alonzo, 97, and Beulah Sims, 94, celebrated their anniversary a day early Sunday at the nursing home where they have lived since May 2002.
Without their families' approval, the two teens married in 1927, when he was working at a farm, plowing fields with a mule and picking cotton for 50 cents a day.
Ala. couple celebrate 80th anniversary - Yahoo! News (broken link)
this gives me hope for marriage overall. it's great when you get marriage right the first time. if i ever marry a wife that great, i'll ride the marriage til death do us part.
Imagine the things they've seen. The changes in the world. Inventions, technology. From wodden spoke wheels on cars to the space shuttle. I lifetime of memories. Very cool.
I have 2 older friends in there 90's that have been married for 72 years. He has had a stroke recently and she gets around good on a walker.
She told me if she had it to do all over again, she would have shacked up with him instead of marrying him but things like that weren't done back in those days. She does crack me up sometimes.
How sweet. I can only hope for many, many more years together with my husband. God has blessed me so much already with the time we've already had together.
There is something about older couples that still "have it". When I see them I feel as if I am peeking into something wonderful and special and rare; it's like seeing a shooting star. I want to rush to them to ask them their secrets; but I know that those secrets can't be put into words. They just....are.
I would love to be married to my husband for 80 years. Sadly I am pretty sure that the likelihood of either of us living into our hundreds is slim to none. Not to say it wont but I seriously doubt it.
To be married that long would take lots of forgiveness, lots of hard work, and lots of love.
I watched as my neighbors grew old together. They were never without one another, with their children living out of state. They would sit in the yard together and hold hands on a big wooden swing he made for them under a tree. Last year they celebrated their 75th anniversary. And FINALLY after 18 years of living next door to them, all of their kids came to celebrate the Blessed event. It was a wonderful affair and I am so glad I went. One week later he was taken away in an ambulance and died that same evening from heart failure. After the funeral the wife went to live with one of the kdis and no one was surprised that she passed within 10 days of her dearly beloved husband. Of a broken heart, no doubt.
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80 years?
if i ever marry a wife that great, i'll ride the marriage til death do us part.
