Eureka!

by chuckofish

Not to be outdone by my DP in the genealogy department (I’m still chuckling about the Matneys), I have been assiduously combing through the Burlington Free Press. After years of searching for information about our grandparents’ marriage, I finally found a wedding announcement! Note that it is reprinted from the Worcester Gazette, which is not available online.

St. George’s Church in Hempstead was founded in 1702, but rebuilt in 1734 and again in 1822. Currently, it looks like this.

I imagine the two of them met in New York, while she was a student at Barnard and he was doing a journalism course at NYU, but who knows? Interestingly, Mira spent a couple of months in Burlington before the wedding, presumably when ANC was at Fort Sill. Look at the last two paragraphs in the article below — sorry about the bad quality! The date of the article is August, 1917.

While she in Burlington, Mira landed in the hospital. This is dated September 13, 1917.

No doubt doing patriotic work with hordes of energetic young ladies wore her out (and I’m not being facetious). A few days later the paper announced that Mira’s health was improving and so gave fair warning to her charges that she’d be back soon.

In the days before computers and cell phones, everything ended up in the Newspaper. Take this marvelous tidbit about our grandfather, dated 11-13-1911, when he was eleven.

No doubt his mother was relieved to get the lad out of the house, or perhaps Bunker wanted to tell his friends that he had been released from “prison”. In any case, Bunker would not have enjoyed being immobilized.

Let those stories whet your appetite for future posts. The Burlington Free Press is a treasure trove of information about our family on both sides; it records weddings, funerals, and lots of colorful gossip. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, I’m off to a local antiques auction. There’s nothing I really, really want or need, so I’m just going for fun and to be on hand if the situation calls for a vintage or antique rescue operation.

Have a great weekend!

P.S. My kitchen counters are scheduled for installation on Monday!!! Keep your fingers crossed…