Bratton, Susan [Taylor]: 3/16/1909

Prospective Guests become Mourners
Bride of Fifty Years Dies Upon Eve of Celebration of Golden Anniversary

Lewistown, March 21. Instead of gathering to assist in the celebration of the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Charley Bratton yesterday, throngs of friends assembled to mourn the death of Mrs. Bratton and to pay a last tribute.

Invitations had been issued broadcast among their acquaintances to the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of the two, but Mrs. Bratton died suddenly last Tuesday and the home near Ryde Station was changed from a scene of gayety to one of sorrow.

Susan J. Bratton was seventy-three years old and her death was the first in the immediate family of her husband and herself during the present generation. Before her marriage a half century ago, she was a Miss Taylor.

The Brattons are among the most prominent of families in this section of the state, the first members having settled here some time in the eighteenth century. A family association was organized a few years ago and an annual meeting is held at the homestead near Ryde Station.

Mrs. Bratton is survived by her husband and the following children: Harry and Thaddeus of Huntingdon; Samuel, Frank and Charley, of Lewistown; James of Mt. Union; Ambrose, at present among the West Virginia lumber camps; Edward and Grace at home, and Mrs. Mary Dimm, of Huntingdon.1

• 1. Patriot *Harrisburg), 3/22/1909