David, Just a personal note to tell you how much I appreciated "The Wedding Trip," and to say thanks for all your contributions to the furtherence of genealogical research in the area that coincides with my father's old stomping grounds. "The Wedding Trip" was especially interesting as I had recently learned of how the son of an Irish immigrant from Dutchess County, N.Y. name of Frederick Mortimer met and married my great-grandmother Martha Betty in Madison County, TN in 1873. Frederick was likely working on the railroads at the time. Maybe somebody can tell me if the railroad ran through or near Claybrook at that time. --Jerry Allen ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Donahue" <ddonahue@netease.net> To: <TNDECATU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 3:41 PM Subject: [TNDECATU] The Wedding Trip > Leo J. Donahue and Anne Moore married May 25, 1948. > > On May 14, 1948, Leo Donahue withdrew $1,000 from his savings account at > the Charlestown [MA] Five Cent Savings Bank (passbook). He would have > had to fly to Nashville to be at the Hermitage Hotel on May 16. > > Leo stayed May 16-18 at the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville at $3.50/night > (receipt) but later went to the Sam Davis which probably was less > exspensive. He received a telegram care of the Sam Davis Hotel on the > May 24 confirming a reservation at the Claridge Hotel in Memphis > (telegram). > > On May 21, Anne Moore had her required blood test done at > Nelson-Robinson-Sayers Clinic on 7th Ave. in Nashville ($3.00, receipt) > > On May 25 they shipped Anne's stuff to Charlestown, MA via Railway > Express (receipt), from Anne Moore, McGannon Hall [a YWCA-affiliated > boarding house] to Leo J. Donahue, 9 Franklin Street, Charlestown, MA > [his parents' address]. That day Leo and Anne married in the pastor's > office at First Baptist Church in Nashville. > > They then took Dixie Greyhound to Memphis (stubs) and spent five nights > (May 25-29) at the Claridge Hotel at $11.00/night (receipt, postcard). > They had to pay an extra $1 for a radio in the room. [I always knew that > mother had been to the zoo in Memphis but I never knew when.] > > On the 29th they took Dixie Greyhound to Parsons (stubs). [I have a few > photos of my parents in Parsons at the Kentucky Avenue house where my > grandparents moved in 1941. I have long thought that those photographs > were made on a May 1948 visit.] > > They returned to Nashville on Dixie Greyhound (stubs). > > On June 2, they flew from Nashville to Boston on American Airlines > (ticket carbons). They had to pay $5.69 for 20 pounds of excess baggage > (receipt). > > They spent June3-8 at the Bradford Hotel in Boston ($6/night, receipt). > > On June 8, 1948 Leo deposited $510.50 into his savings account at > Charlestown Five Cent Savings Bank (passbook). > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > After 14 months since my father's death I am finally beginning to deal > with my parents files and everything they saved (like monthly checking > account statements in sheet protectors!). Granted that without the > receipts for the wedding trip and the ticket stubs I would never have > known about my parents wedding trip, but I cannot imagine saving stuff > like this, especially the bus stubs. My dad had the family papers for > mother's family so I inserted the receipts and stubs into a sheet > protector and inserted the sheet into a notebook dad had made on my mother. > > Yesterday I also found that my dad had my mother's 1940 Decatur County > High School annual. I knew that there had been a high school annual > because I have the original of mother's annual photo. But I never knew > that mother actually had a copy of the annual itself. She never > mentioned it, even when I asked her about her school days. She told me > Newman Ivey was the handsomest boy in her class but never offered to > show me his photograph. (It is actually mother's copy of the annual and > not another copy dad obtained; mother wrote her name Anna Moore at the > top of the front page.) > > I think that mother sanitized the annual at some point before she died > (1997). Her sister's 1943 annual printed with the same layout and by the > same company had plastic post screws. At the end were signature pages to > collect parting statements and best wishes from friends. The plastic > post screws broke when I tried to take it apart to scan the senior photo > page and I had to replace the screws with new aluminum ones. Mother's > 1940 annual is missing the signature pages and has aluminum post screws. > > This morning I found mother's valedictorian address in the drawer with > the 1948-2002 tax files. > > Although they both later owned Brownies, I think that neither had a > camera in 1948. There are no photos of their wedding or of Memphis. > There are photos probably taken at that time in Parsons, and there are > photos which could have been taken at that time in the yard of McGannon > Hall. In either case someone else probably made the photographs. > > I wish I could visit Boston now for $6/night.. > > David Donahue > > > > > > ==== TNDECATU Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe send message unsubscribe to > TNDECATU-L-request@rootsweb.com >