Wedding clippings & envelopes — Amy Perry Allston's wedding; D. M. Allston Jr. bank-promotion clipping; three envelopes to Mrs. J. P. Walker

A multi-element album page combining wedding photographs, a newspaper portrait, and three envelopes from family correspondents to the compiler.

Upper left — large wedding clipping with bride photograph

A tall newspaper clipping of a bride in a long lace mantilla veil, posed in profile against a dark backdrop. The caption beneath:

WED IN OUTDOOR CEREMONY — Mrs. Henry Burnett Fishburne is the former Miss Amy Perry Allston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald McKay Allston, of Willtown Bluff plantation. Her marriage to Mr. Fishburne, of Sumter and Columbia, took place yesterday afternoon on the lawn of her home. (Staff Photo by Reilly.)

[The clipping records Amy Perry Allston’s marriage on May 16, 1946 to Henry Burnett Fishburne, at Willtown Bluff plantation. Amy was the eldest of Mary Annie Perry FitzSimons Allston’s three children. The plantation house is the same Willtown / Wilton / New London property the Whitney widow had restored to Minnie FitzSimons Allston in the late 1930s (see p350 clipping).]

Upper centre — two small black-and-white snapshots, one above the other

Snapshot at top: a wedding party emerging from a doorway, descending a low brick stoop. A man in white suit at left guides a bride in white gown out; another bridesmaid follows behind. Pencil caption beneath:

Aramintha

[Most likely a snapshot from Aramintha Theodora Allston’s 8 Dec 1943 marriage to Robert Hale McEwan at St. Phillips Church, Charleston. The man in the white suit is plausibly her father, Donald McKay Allston Sr.]

Snapshot below: a close-up of a man in white suit standing beside a young woman in bridal dress. Pencil caption:

Donald & Amy

[i.e., Donald McKay Allston Sr. and his daughter Amy Perry Allston, photographed at her wedding the day of the clipping above.]

Lower left — newspaper clipping from The News and Courier, Sunday Feb. 18, 1962, page 7-A

Headline:

4 Men Promoted At C. & S. Bank

Beside a head-and-shoulders portrait of a young man in dark suit and bow-tie, captioned beneath:

D. M. Allston Jr. Senior Trust Officer

Body of the article:

Four men in the trust department of the Charleston office of Citizens & Southern National Bank of S.C. have received promotions. This recognition reflects the growth of the C&S Trust Department and its increasing importance in the operation of the bank.

In Charleston, Donald M. Allston Jr. has been made senior trust officer in charge of local trust operations. William H. Huffman, H. Louis Koester III, M. Bradley Wilson have been made trust officers of the bank.

Mr. Allston, the son of Donald McKay Allston and Mary FitzSimons Allston of Charleston, was educated in local schools and at St. Paul’s in Concord, N.H. He graduated from The Citadel in 1949 and received his law degree from the University of South Carolina in 1953, and [became a] trust officer in 1957.

He is a member of the Carolina Yacht Club, the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity and the S.C. Bar Association. He and his wife, the former Miss Margarita FitzSimons of Hendersonville, N.C., attend Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. They and their three children live at 625 Wappoo Drive, Riverland Terrace.

[The clipping confirms Donald McKay Allston Jr.'s career: Citadel '49, U.S.C. Law '53, C&S trust officer 1957, senior trust officer 1962. The “Mary FitzSimons Allston” named here is Mary Annie (“Minnie”) Perry FitzSimons Allston. The “three children” living at 625 Wappoo Drive are Donald McKay III (b. 1948), Margarita Consuelo (b. 1951), and Mary Ann (b. 1957, d. Aug 1962 — six months after this clipping was published). Samuel FitzSimons Allston (b. 1965) is not yet born.]

Right side — three overlapping addressed envelopes

Top envelope (long white business envelope)

Postmark: Chicago, Feb 8 1943.

Typed return-address block at upper left:

From: Donald Allston SP/C (Name) (Rate) 18 D Burton-Judson (Co.) (Bn.) (Quarters) U.S. Naval Training School University of Chicago Chicago 37, Illinois

Addressee, typed:

Mrs. J. P. Walker (Mrs. Donald Allston) Yonges Island South Carolina

[Donald McKay Allston Jr. (b. 20 Feb 1925), a U.S. Navy storekeeper trainee at the University of Chicago’s Naval Training School in early 1943 — sending mail to his “Aunt Amy” (Mrs. J. P. Walker, the compiler), who at the time was care-of his mother Mrs. Donald Allston Sr. at Yonges Island, S.C. SP/C = Storekeeper Petty Officer 3rd Class. Cf. the longer letter from this same writer on p364.]

Middle envelope

Small printed return-address at upper left (vertical):

HENRY B. FISHBURNE 4 Archdale Road, The Crescent Charleston 44, S.C.

Postmark: Charleston, May 15, 1960, 5 PM, S.C.

Addressee, in blue ink cursive:

Mrs. J. P. Walker 3698 Hedrick St. Jacksonville Florida

A pencil note in the right margin (in the compiler’s hand) reads:

Letter from Mr. Horace Phillips — March 14, 1959 — telling the opinion of Minnie F.S. by an old servant at Atlantic Club —

[The pencil note is the compiler’s own annotation about a different letter that was once enclosed (now lost) — that 1959 letter from Horace Phillips related a servant’s recollection of Minnie F.S. (= Mary Annie / Minnie FitzSimons Allston, the compiler’s sister) at a place called the “Atlantic Club” — possibly the Charleston “Atlantic Beach Club” or similar. The envelope itself, however, is a 1960 envelope from Henry B. Fishburne (Amy Perry’s husband, the compiler’s nephew-by-marriage).]

Lower envelope (torn at one corner)

Postmark: Charleston, S.C., Jun [date worn] 1962, with a purple 4¢ Lincoln stamp.

Addressee, in blue ink:

Mrs. J. P. Walker Rt. 2 Hendersonville N.C.