Newspaper clipping 'Licensed to Wed' and engraved wedding invitation: Ann Seymour Knight to James Pickens Walker Jr., June 26, 1941
Book 2, Page 190 ·1941
Transcription
Newspaper clipping (upper):
THE SUNDAY TIMES-UNION, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1941.
Daily Record
Licensed to Wed
Abbott B. Walton and Bobbie N. Robbins.
Miller Walker and Victoria E. Gibbs.
Richard Thomas Frear and Pearl Dunn.
Edward Payson Blakey and Mary Virginia Doubleday.
Joshua W. Blount and Clara O. Burkhardt.
Walter E. Bendever and Josephine Serratore.
Edward Joseph Norman and Evelina Dawkins.
William Davis Waldrop and Harriet Moseley Ridgell.
William Everett Dukes and Pauline Winifred Bowden.
Pressie Hughes and Rovena Goodman.
William Benjamin Weeks and Geraldine Folsom.
Charles K. Tracy and Louise Lee.
Conrad W. Furman and Leona Varnes.
John S. Calhoun Jr. and Alice Van Swope.
Stephen W. Doll and Geraldine Reed.
Lester J. DeVane and Myrtice Vickers.
Jay L. Taft Jr. and Irene Schorsch.
James Pickens Walker Jr. and Ann Seymour Knight.
Clyde S. Boxx and Eliza Elizabeth Rowe.
DeLee Boyd Crum and Jewel Abie McCallum.
[The James Pickens Walker Jr. / Ann Seymour Knight entry is underlined in pencil on the original clipping. Several first names that wrap across column breaks (Burkhardt, Serratore, Dawkins, Ridgell, Bowden, Folsom, Van Swope, McCallum) are reconstructed from partial line endings.]
Engraved invitation (lower):
Mr. and Mrs. Albion Williamson Knight
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Ann Seymour
to
Mr. James Pickens Walker, Jr.
on Thursday, the twenty-sixth of June
at eight o’clock in the evening
The Church of the Good Shepherd
Jacksonville, Florida
AI Notes
The page (lined paper) carries two items: a Jacksonville newspaper clipping mounted at upper center and an engraved wedding invitation on cream card stock mounted at lower center. The clipping is the ‘Licensed to Wed’ column from THE SUNDAY TIMES-UNION, Jacksonville, Florida, Sunday, June 22, 1941. The entry ‘James Pickens Walker Jr. and Ann Seymour Knight’ is underlined in pencil on the clipping. The invitation is from Mr. and Mrs. Albion Williamson Knight for the marriage of their daughter Ann Seymour to Mr. James Pickens Walker Jr. at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Jacksonville, on Thursday, June 26 (1941). A pencilled ‘1941’ is written at the lower left of the page.
Pencil annotation at lower left of album page: “1941”.