Wedding invitation: Ann Seymour Knight to James Pickens Walker Jr., 1941

An engraved formal wedding invitation printed in black script on cream stock. The year 1941 has been written in blue ballpoint at the bottom margin in a later hand. A faint brown stain runs across the upper left of the sheet. No marginalia beyond the ‘1941’ annotation.

James Pickens Walker Jr. (1912–1969) is the eldest son of the compiler Amy FitzSimons Walker and her husband James Pickens Walker Sr.; six weeks after his sister Mary Ann’s 14 May 1941 wedding to Lt. Oswald Beverley McEwan in the same church (see pp001–002), the younger James was himself married there. The bride’s parents share their names with the prominent Episcopal bishop Albion Williamson Knight (1859–1936), Bishop of Cuba and later Coadjutor of New Jersey, but the bishop died five years before this wedding — the bride’s father is almost certainly his son and namesake Albion Williamson Knight Jr. (1891–1953). Both Walker children were therefore married at Jacksonville’s Church of the Good Shepherd in 1941, the same parish where their father would be baptized as an adult in 1950 (see p023) and their brother confirmed the day after (see p020).