Heady Family Newsletter has marriage date as 8/23/1866. Obit has 8/22/1866.
Obit
EZRA DALRYMPLE OF PICKERING DIED THIS MORNING
Funeral at 2:30 o'clock Monday Afternoon at M.E. Church
Burial at White Oak
Ezra Dalrymple. Civil War Veteran who had passed his eighty-first birthday on January 13, and was a native of Nodaway county, died about 1 o' clock this morning at St. Francis Hospital where he was taken some time ago. He had resided in Pickering for the past seven years since retiring from the farm near here.
The funeral will be conducted at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at the M.E. Church at Pickering. The Rev. Charles E. Reed will officiate. Burial will be at White Oak Cemetery.
In 1936 Mr. and Mrs. Dalrympe had celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.
It was on Aug. 22, 1866, the Mr. Dalrymple, an 18-year-old soldier boy who had recently been honorably discharged from the Union army, and Martha Blevins. his 16 year old sweetheart were united in marriage in the eastern part of what is now Nodaway township. Mr. Dalrymple was a native and Mrs. Dalrymple an Indianan by birth.
Besides Mrs. Dalrymple, ten children, six sons and four daughters survive.
They are:
David T. - near Pickering
Mrs. Lydia M. Wilder - living near Washington
Chauncey H. living in Kansas
Willis A. of Pickering
Mrs. Daisy Harrison of McFall
Mrs. Grace Wagner of Brighton, Colorado
William A. of Maryville
James B. of Maryville
Ira M. of Grant City
Mrs. Mary May of Enhield, CA (?) Town may be misspelled
He is also survived by 39 grandchildren and 31 great grandchildren
Inscription
Inscription: Co H 51 MO Inf
Awarded Metal Star: GAR 1861-1865