Weddings in my Ancestral Line: December 8th through 14th

Two of my known direct ancestral couples were married during the second week of December:
maternal 6X great grandparents Moses Cooper and Mary Mathewson were wed in Glocester, Rhode Island, on December 10, 1732; and maternal great grandparents Lewis Logan Slater and Rufina Tomlinson in Severy, Kansas, on December 13, 1885.

[Lewis Logan Slater & Rufina Tomlinson Slater-undated double portrait

courtesy of Olive Slater-Kennedy]

The following two couples also married during the second week of December but I'm less certain of my relationship to them: paternal 10X great grandparents Thomas Ford and his first wife Joan Way wed in England on December 13, 1610*; and maternal 5X great grandparents William White and Jemima Wright were married on December 13, 1781 in Adams, Massachusetts, by my 6X great grandfather Elder Peter Worden.**

*This is a line that I haven't looked at in years and so I'm not certain of my connection. In any case, I would be descended from his second wife Elizabeth Charde.
**This couple's relationship to me is entirely speculative and not to be relied on. If it's true they are the grandparents of Hannah Leonard, the wife of Porter Worden (my 3X great grandparents)



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Sunday Drive: Encanto, 1948 (and 1950)

Finally we have a bright red truck that didn't belong to Dad! The man behind the wheel of this 1937 Ford 1/2 Ton Platform Stake Bed Truck is Encanto neighbor (Alva) Clyde Everett (1903-1992). He and his wife Mabel grew tomatoes in the field across Wunderlun Avenue from the back of the Currey property. The structure behind his truck is the shed they built to pack their tomatoes for market. This photo was taken in 1948.

This is view of the back of the Currey property which shows the tomato field and packing shed taken in the same year. The Everetts lived in the white house at the top of the hill.

And here's a closer look at the packing shed (taken in 1950). Apparently I was helping out.

[All photos from my personal collection]

Their listing in the San Diego City Directory for 1948. (Yes the address for their hilltop home was on Broadway which is a continuation of the street of the same name in downtown San Diego.)

[Ancestry.com City Directories, San Diego 1948]

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