Halifax Herald, Jan. 11th - Fifty years ago yesterday, Matthew LODGE and Letitia A. SPROULE were married and settled down at Mapleton in the Maccan Mountains, Cumberland, N.S. where Mrs. Lodge was born. The Lodge family came into the country with the Yorkshire settlers over a hundred years ago. His grandfather had a large family, one of whom, Joseph LODGE was the father of the subject of this notice. Both father and grandfather were Methodists. Matthew Lodge was converted when about 25 years of age, and worked on the farm by day, devoted his nights to the study of the Bible and the preaching of the gospel. His circuit at one time extended from Advocate Harbor to Economy and from Nappan to River Philip. His ministry has extended over a period of 45 years. Mrs. Lodge came from a Scotch-Irish family. The marriage was blessed with a family of nine children, of whom three, Mrs. Eliza HUNTLEY, Mrs. Sarah MEGENEY and Agnes LODGE have died within the past 12 years; Mary Jane SHENTON, the accomplished poetess w/o Rev. Job SHENTON of Charlottetown, P.E.I.; Rev. Wilson Wesley LODGE is a Methodist minister stationed at Cornwall, P.E.I.; James LODGE married the daughter of Henry HARRISON and resides at Goose River, Cumberland; John Fletcher LODGE resides at Mapleton; Matthew LODGE, who attended Mount Allison institution, is an official of the Moncton sugar refinery; and Letitia LODGE.