Stedman–Fishburne wedding invitation, St. Philip's Town Tour clipping, and note on the christening of Elizabeth Allston Fishburne
Book 1, Page 351 ·1961–1980
Transcription
The album page carries a printed wedding invitation at the upper left, a Charleston Evening Post clipping at the upper right, and a short handwritten note in blue cursive across the lower left.
Printed wedding invitation (upper left)
Mr. and Mrs. John Alexander Stedman request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Lurline Byars to Mr. Henry Burnett Fishburne, Junior on Saturday, the twenty-seventh of July one thousand nine hundred and seventy-four at seven o’clock First United Methodist Church Marion, South Carolina
A tissue interleaf and a cellophane mailing envelope are tucked behind the right edge.
Handwritten note (lower left, blue ballpoint cursive)
- Elizabeth Allston Fishburne was born to Lurline Stedman Fishburne and Henry Burnett Fishburne, Jr. on July 29, 1980. She was christened in St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, Charleston, S.C. on November 8, 1980 by the Rev. Donald Allston Fishburne, her uncle.
[The note is numbered “1.”, suggesting the compiler intended to record a series of grandchildren’s christenings.]
Newspaper clipping (upper right) — The Charleston Evening Post, Woman’s Page
Folded across the top:
FRIDAY, MARCH [day torn] '61 THE CHARLESTON EVENING POST WOMAN’S PAGE
Banner headline:
St. Philip’s Town Tour Tomorrow
A black-and-white photograph below the headline shows two women in an interior: an older woman seated, and a younger woman standing in a hat and white gloves. Caption beneath:
Mrs. Henry Fishburne (right), who will serve as a hostess for St. Philip’s Town Tour to be held tomorrow afternoon is pictured with Miss Alice R. Huger Smith, owner of one of the five homes to be opened to the public. Located at 69 Church street, the home is the famous Capers Huger-Smith house. (Staff photo by Reilly’s.)
AI Notes
An album page with a printed wedding invitation at the upper left (with its tissue interleaf showing through a cellophane envelope tucked behind the right edge), a newspaper clipping at the upper right from The Charleston Evening Post Woman’s Page headlined ‘St. Philip’s Town Tour Tomorrow’ and showing a photograph of Mrs. Henry Fishburne with Miss Alice R. Huger Smith, and a handwritten note in blue cursive below the invitation recording the christening of Elizabeth Allston Fishburne in 1980. The handwritten note is numbered ‘1.’ at start, suggesting the compiler intended a series of christening notes. The newspaper clipping date strip preserves only ‘FRIDAY, MARCH’ before tear (likely 1961 per pencil date elsewhere). Lurline Byars (the daughter) becomes ‘Mrs. Henry Burnett Fishburne, Jr.’ on marriage 27 July 1974 — the same Mrs. Henry Fishburne pictured in the 1961 clipping is the senior generation (mother-in-law of the bride, and mother of Henry Burnett Fishburne Jr. and the Rev. Donald Allston Fishburne); the Mrs. Henry Fishburne in the photograph is therefore Amy Perry Allston Fishburne (per page 361, m. Henry Burnett Fishburne May 1946 Willtown Bluff).
The Mrs. Henry Fishburne pictured here is Amy Perry Allston Fishburne (m. Henry Burnett Fishburne May 1946, per page 361) — i.e., the mother of the Henry Burnett Fishburne, Jr. whose wedding invitation appears at left of this page, and of the Rev. Donald Allston Fishburne whose ordination cards appear on page 353.
The Miss Alice R. Huger Smith in the photograph is Alice Ravenel Huger Smith (1876–1958), the watercolorist and historian widely regarded as a leading figure of the Charleston Renaissance and co-author of The Dwelling Houses of Charleston (1917). 69 Church Street, the Capers-Motte House, was her family home and the subject of many of her paintings; she died the year before the tour clipping appeared.