Wednesday, March 4, 2026

1930 scrapbook: Wedding bells

Here's the first page of the album that Johnny sent. 

Several wedding announcements, and also a couple of poems. I'm guessing these were friends or acquaintances of whoever was keeping this scrapbook. Were they quiet, pious girls, or a wild bunch?
The two poems are loose in the scrapbook. Googling them came up empty, so I am guessing they are local poets. One of the poets has the byline W.O. Gibson. Googling that name comes up with a book called "Rambling Meditations of W.O. Gibson", published in 1973, in the archives of Valdosta State University.

Mary Ford Hernlen died in 1970, at the age of 62. 

Madeline Sallas married Frank Roberts on February 28, 1930, and died on 82 years later, at the age of 100, outliving her husband by 20 years. She had 13 great-grandchildren at the time of her passing. 

Martha and Nathaniel Turner did get married in 1930 and had a son the next year, Nathaniel II. Nathaniel died in 1974, Martha in 1996.

Finally, not a wedding announcement, but the charming Miss Waudelle Tucker, chosen the "most beautiful girl" at the University of Florida summer school. This local news seems to have made newspapers far and wide in August of 1930, as far north as Indiana and as far west as Missouri. She married Latimer Long, the only attorney in Auburndale, FL, and worked as his office manager. They had two daughters. Waudelle died in 2001 at the age of 89.
 

1 comment:

  1. You are doing the work my friend. (BTW- Fred handled the estates of dozens of people in Valdosta and rather than sell their stuff, he'd just buy it all himself.

    here's a tidbit for you unrelated to that scrapbook.

    research "Doc" Bell and also the "Bell House" in Valdosta.

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