From The Portsmouth Daily Times
 Wednesday, August 22, 1923

    An unusual celebration was held today at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Rickey, and Mrs. Chloe McGhee of 732 Third street, when their parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Canter, celebrated their fifty-sixth wedding anniversary. The celebration was a very quiet affair, owing to a recent bereavement in the family, and only the close relatives of the aged couple were present to congratulate them and extend happy felicitations on this unusual occasion. Mr. Canter is enjoying splendid health, but his good wife has been an invalid for the past few years, her eyesight having failed her some time ago.
    Mr. George Canter and Elizabeth Gilliland lived as neighbors on adjoining farms at Mabees Corner, Jackson county, where they were both born and reared. Mr. Canter served during the Civil War, in Company A, First Ohio Heavy Artillery. Shortly after the war he returned home and the following summer he and Miss Gilliland were married on August 22nd, 1866. They started housekeeping on a farm on the Mabees Pike, Hamilton Township, Jackson county, where they lived for many years. Thirteen children were born to them, seven of whom are living to comfort them in the evening of their life. They are Mrs. Alonzo Rickey and Mrs. Chloe McGhee, with whom they make their home at 732 Third street; Mrs. John Rickey of Kendall avenue; Mrs. Kate Eblin of Harrisonville avenue, New Boston; Mrs. Stella Holbrook, of Minford; Mrs. Mary McCain, of Monroe Furnace; and William Canter of Kingston, Ohio.
    Mr. Canter is in his 77th year, while his beloved wife is 74 years of age.

-- transcribed by Kate Maynard, 2009.