Durham-Wake-Chatham County NcArchives Marriages.....Upchurch, L. S. - Beavers, Dillie 1851
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Charlotte Observer - Jan. 4, 1909
FAMILY WITH UNUSUAL RECORD

L.S. Upchurch Married For Fifty-Seven Years and Has 106 Relatives.

Durham, Jan. 3 - On the border line of Wake, Durham and Chatham counties the 
family of Mr. L.S. Upchurch lives and it has a remarkable record. The last day 
of the year is Mr. Upchurch's birthday. It is always celebrated by a family 
reunion, and the encroachment of years seldom finds one missing. Mr. Upchurch 
married Miss Dillie Beavers December 23d, 1851. To them were born thirteen 
children, and eleven survive. Ten of the eleven were present at the recent 
reunion and forty of the forty-nine grandchildren attended. Fourteen of the 
twenty-one great-grandchildren came, and with the ten children, their wives 
and husbands, the forty grandchildren, their wives and husbands, and the great-
grandchildren, there were 106 relatives, 84 of whom were present.

The spread dinner was a feature of the old gentleman's natal day. It was made 
up of a basket from every family. The table which carried it was sawed fifty 
years ago and is made of planks seventeen inches wide. They are in perfect 
state of preservation.

Mr. Upchurch lived forty-three years with his first wife, who died fifteen 
years ago. In 1902 he married Mrs. Watson and they enjoy almost perfect 
health. In the fifty-seven years of married life, there have been but seven 
deaths in all of the families, a remarkable record.


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