'FitzSimons-Waterfall Marriage Announced' — The State, 12 June 1931
Book 4, Page 23 ·1931
Transcription
FitzSimons-Waterfall Marriage Announced
The marriage of Miss Katherine Gaillard FitzSimons to Charles Hardy Waterfall, which took place at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning, June 9, at the Church of the Advent, Spartanburg, the Rev. W. H. K. Pendleton, rector, officiating, has been announced by Gaillard Stoney FitzSimons, father of the bride. The ceremony was witnessed by the immediate families.
The bride was unattended and she wore a morning frock of white with hat and accessories to match. She is the youngest daughter of Mr. FitzSimons and is a graduate of Coker college.
Mr. Waterfall is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Waterfall of Vancouver, B. C., and is a graduate of Haileybury college, England, the Oregon State college, and received his master’s degree from Harvard. He is a member of the faculty of the University of South Carolina.
Mr. and Mrs. Waterfall left for New York, from which point they will sail the latter part of the week to spend the summer with relatives in England and Ireland and in travel on the continent. After September 1 they will be at home in Columbia.
Source: The State (Columbia, S.C.), Friday 12 June 1931, page 6. Image from newspapers.com, image 748494562. Public-domain newspaper. The source PDF is archived in this repository under additionalDocumentation/The_State_1931_06_12_6.pdf.
AI Notes
The State (Columbia), Friday 12 June 1931, page 6 — announcement of the marriage of Katherine Gaillard FitzSimons to Charles Hardy Waterfall, three days earlier on Tuesday 9 June 1931 at 10 A.M. at the Church of the Advent, Spartanburg. This is the parent marriage that produced Gaillard FitzSimons Waterfall — the groom in the December-(probably 1967)-Camden wedding clipping at book-001/p602. Three substantive identifications: (1) The bride Katherine Gaillard FitzSimons is the youngest daughter of Gaillard Stoney FitzSimons — Amy’s paternal uncle (Gen-4, the ‘Gaillie’ of the c. 1866 carte-de-visite at album p554 captioned ‘Ellen 4 yrs. Gaillie 3’). Gaillard Stoney FitzSimons was ‘of Spartanburg’ per the 1925 Kit funeral notice at book-004/021. Katherine is the first of his daughters to be named in the album record. A Coker College graduate. (2) The groom Charles Hardy Waterfall is the son of A. R. Waterfall of Vancouver, B.C. — i.e., the Waterfall family is Canadian by origin, not Southern; the Waterfall surname enters the SC family record through this 1931 marriage. He is a graduate of Haileybury College (England), Oregon State, and Harvard (master’s); a member of the USC faculty in 1931. (3) The Gaillard / FitzSimons name-line: the ‘Gaillard’ Christian name carries through (at least) four generations — Gen-3 Dr. Christopher’s wife Susan Milliken Barker brought no Gaillard name in directly, but the Gaillard middle name attaches via Susan’s father Samuel Gaillard Barker; thence Gen-4 ‘Gaillie’ = Gaillard Stoney FitzSimons; Gen-5 Katherine Gaillard FitzSimons (this bride); Gen-6 Gaillard FitzSimons Waterfall (the album p602 groom). The honeymoon plans — sail from New York for England, Ireland, and the continent for the summer, returning to Columbia by September 1 — bracket the wedding for cross-checking against passenger lists and Spartanburg Anglican-church records.
The four-generation Gaillard name-line. The ‘Gaillard’ name in this family descends as: Susan’s father Samuel Gaillard Barker (Gen-3) → his grandson Gaillard Stoney FitzSimons (Gen-4, b. c.1863) → his daughter Katherine Gaillard FitzSimons (Gen-5, bride here, June 1931) → her son Gaillard FitzSimons Waterfall (Gen-6, groom at book-001/p602, probably 1967). The Waterfall surname enters the family at this 1931 marriage from Vancouver, British Columbia, where the groom’s father A. R. Waterfall lived.
Bride’s youngest-daughter status implies older siblings. The 1931 notice describes Katherine as ‘the youngest daughter of Mr. FitzSimons’ — meaning Gaillard Stoney had at least one other daughter, and probably a son (carrying the FitzSimons surname forward), neither yet documented in the album. Worth cross-checking against the Spartanburg / Columbia 1920 and 1930 censuses.