I typed to preserve a newspaper article
My paternal grandfather was fostered by the couple featured in the article. My grandmother probably saved it, because she planned the Golden Wedding celebration for people who were the same as her parents-in-law.
I think there are some dates and other information that might help me find birth, marriage and death records for my grandfather and his parents, especially his father. My great-grandfather died, and my great-grandmother remarried, but even though the article states that my grandfather was orphaned, his mother outlived him and had 8 more children to boot! Grandfather died in 1945. I remembered visiting his mother when I was very young in the 1950s.
The bottom of the newspaper was chewed by mice. It is in the same condition as when I came across it, but since it is so old, I thought it was a good idea to copy as much as I could. I'd love to find a copy of the newspaper and fill in those blanks 
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Wellington Enterprise (OH) November 20, 1940
“These may be troubled times, with threats of war and with uncertainty in government, but Mr. and Mrs. Albert Brice, although a little apprehensive about the affairs of the world, will not let that keep them from having a happy time on Sunday, when they celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
The Brices, residents of Wellington for 26 years, will have a family dinner at noon with 35 guests, and from two until seven o’clock.
Their anniversary will really occur two days later, on the 26th. The 26th of November, 1890, was the day before Thanksgiving, they recall.
They were married by the bride’s uncle, Robert Reid, who was pastor of of the Presbyterian church in Saline Mills, Ill. For 40 years.
A Long Story
How both Mr. Brice and his bride, who was Wylie Ried, came to be in Saline Mills, is, as they say, a rather long story.
Mrs. Brice was born 70 years ago on Oct. 28, in Lonaconing, Md. When she was only 18 months old her mother died, leaving four small children, three girls and a boy.
Two if the children, one of them Mrs. Brice, were taken to live with an uncle and aunt in Saline Mills. Mrs, Brice never again saw her brother, who died at 19, and did not see her other sister for 35 years.
Mr. Brice was born in Lansing, Mich., his father and mother having moved there from Huntington, at the close of the Civil War.
His father, Edwin Brice, had come from England in 1854 at the age of 12. Others of his family also came from England, many of them settling in and near Oberlin.
Married in Huntington
Edwin Brice enlisted in an Ohio regiment in the Civil War and at the end of a three-year enlistment, came to Huntington and married and (sic) Ohio girl whose mother had died and who lived with the Ed West family for a number of years.
Mr. Brice went back to the for about a year, then returned to Huntington and took his wife and a young son to Lansing, where Albert Brice was born, 73 years ago next Feb. 19.
The family remained at Lansing for five years, then went to Lebanon, Ind., and later to Illinois, where Albert Brice met his bride.
While the family was still in Indiana, the father became imbued with the “GP-west” spirit, and with several friends, hired a train and took stock and farming implements to Dodge City, Kansas, where, as a Civil War veteran, he received a 160 acre tract of land.
He built a home on the land and then went back to Indiana by covered wagon, to bring his family to the new farm. His wife, however, was not well and so they never went to Dodge City. The father spent most of the time on his farm for three years in order to get a clear title to the property, which he sold a number of years later.
Grandfather Oxford Grad
Albert Brice’s maternal grandfather was a graduate of Oxford university (sic) in England and was a Methodist minister. His grandmother was a daughter of an English (missing)
(Mr. Brice) remembers that (missing) him and his brothers (missing) ?ould someday be well (missing) ?ould of a cop? (missing)
After his grandmother’s death his grandfather got regular checks from England. Then the checks stopped coming. When they wrote to find out the trouble, they were told the estate was in chancery. Anyway, there was never any more money forthcoming and Mr. Brice wonders to this day what became of the estate.
Four Children Died
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Albert Brice, they lived for nearly a quarter of a century after their marriage in Illinois. Here four children were born to them. All of them died in infancy, the eldest at the age of 18 months.
Mr. Brice farmed for a number of years and later ran a soft coal mine. Finally his parents moved back to Huntington, where they remained a year and then moved to Wellington.
Mr. and Mrs. Brice spent a summer here with his parents, and later moved here, bringing with them and orphaned neighbor, John M. Davis, who they came to consider as their own son. He is now an auditor in Cleveland and he and his wife have made all the plans for the Golden Wedding Celebration.
Worked at Sterling
Mr. Brice, after coming to Wellington, worked for about 14 years at the Sterling Machine and Stamp Co. where he had charge of assembly. He also worked for a number of years for Turner Bros.
The Brices are Presbyterians and have never joined a church. However, they are “friendly” to all the churches, they say, and attend one or another of them regularly.
The Brices have a rather peculiar family relationship which puzzles some of their friends, some of whose (sic) are convinced that Mr. and Mrs. Brice are first cousins.
They are, as a matter of fact, unrelated, although they have the same first cousins.
Mrs. Brice’s mother’s sister married Mrs. Brice’s father’s brother. Also, Mrs. Brice’s cousin is also her sister-in-law. The Brices admit this is rather confusing."
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