110 커플 추수 감사절에 수요일 1902
수요일에, 11월 26, 1902, 110 부부는 세인트에 도착. 루이 결혼 면허 국은 공식적으로 추수 감사절에 결혼합니다. The 110 한 쌍의 이전 레코드 집합을 위반 1901. 이 기록은 또한 단지까지 일년 동안 방치 것 1903.
Drawing from the November 27 1902 세인트의 판. 루이스 공화국
에서 시작 9 분이고. 때까지 계속 5 오후, Recorder Hahn issued license after license as three ministers performed the ceremonies for those wanting to marry at the courthouse. Many couples intended to marry in private ceremonies on Thanksgiving Day, 11월 27, 1902.
One of the more interesting ceremonies was performed in the house of Robert Hamilton in the 4400 block of Arco Avenue. 씨. Hamilton’s daughters Matilda and Irene were wedding Edward T. Card and H. A. Seward of Chicago, IL in a double wedding. After the ceremony, it appears Mr. and Mrs. Seward settled in Chicago.
The Cards stayed in St. Louis though. 8 월 12, 1906, Edward and Matilda Card welcomed Robert Edward Card into the world. Sometime after it was built in 1908, the family moved into a house in the 5300 block of Wabada Avenue on the North Side of St. 루이. The Cards may have had more children.
Card House on Wabada Avenue – 구글 어스의 의례
Matilda J. Card was a housewife who passed away on January 18, 1933. Matilda had been born in St. Louis on November 30, 1873. 그녀는했다 28 years old when she married Edward T. Card and they were married just over 30 년. Back then and today, breast cancer is a deadly killer. It would take Mrs. Card’s life way too soon at the young age of 59.
Edward Trafford Card died from the results of a fall November 7, 1957. Born on July 13, 1872 세인트에서. 루이, MO, 씨. Card was 85 세. He survived his wife by 24 years and never remarried. 씨. Card retired from Carter Carburator, a major St. Louis employer by the old Sportsman Park at N. Grand and Dodier Street. 씨. Card lived in the Wabada home at the time of his death.
All 110 couples who wed on Thanksgiving Day 1902 had a story also. A couple in my grandmother’s family married on Thanksgiving Day 1904. It is stories like these that give history meaning. Otherwise it is impersonal facts and figures.
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