Dayton Daily News - January 2, 1889

Family Dinner Party

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Mr. and Mrs. Simon Gebhart and their entire family of children and grandchildren at dinner at their home yesterday--a family of twenty-two--George P. and wife and children, Robert, Edgar and Rollin; Wm. F. and wife and children, Percy, Dick and Louise; Capt. R. Norwood, U.S. A., and wife and children, Mary and Sonerfield; W. B. Gebhart ans wife; O. B. Brown and wife and two unmarried daughters, Mary A. and Florence; Miss Anna Parker, a niece of Somerset, Pa., was also present. This was a complete family circle without a break. All the children of Mr. and Mrs. Gebhart and all the grandchildren were present. A remarkable instance of a large and happy family without a single one absent or deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Gebhart were married about fifty years ago. The oldest grandchild is twenty-two years and the youngest three years of age.