A LONG-LIVED FAMILY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7828, 22 August 1904, Page 3

A LONG-LIVED FAMILY.

Mr and Mrs David Keggie (parents of the late Mr D. Heggie, cf Masterton) recently celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their wedding, at Greenhead. Auchterader (Scotland), where they now reside with their youngest daughter, Mrs I). Sutherland. A large number of their friend 3 were present on the occasion, and the aged couple were heartily congratulated. They were married in Perth in 1888 by the late Rev. Mr Isdale. After their marriage tney resided in Alcnondbank for six years, during which time Mr Heggie was in the Huntingtower Bleachworks. Subsequently they removed to Luncarty, and for about fifty years Mr Heggie was in the bleach, works there, and served under four masters during that long period of employment. Although eighty-six yeais of age, Mr Heggie only relinquished work in October last. Mr Heggie is a contented and brave old man, and last year went through a serious operation without the aid of chloroform. Immediately on his return from the Infirmary, his first anxiety, after making sure that his " better-half" was all right, was to see that his horse and the garden were in the same good

order which he himself had kept.thorn. At the Glasgow Fair, this year, four generations were all living under the same roof —the old couple, their daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter. Notwithstanding their advanced, years, the old couple are still in good health. They have many reminiscences to relate of the early days. Mrs Heggie's mother lived till she was ninety-two, while her grandmother, at her death, was within a few months of a hundred. Mr Heggie's father died at the age of eighty-five. Mrs Hcggie, although eighty-seven years of age. is as shrewd and as keen, intellectually, as ever. Unfortunately, she is unable to knit or read. Six of their family are alive, and their grand-children ami great-grand-children number about one hundred. Mrs Heggie's oldest brother was the Rev. Duncan Campbell, Georgetown, Kentucky, who was a professor.