Inner envelope of the Powell wedding announcement addresses "Rev. Mr. J. Walter Bassett."In another letter John refers to Walter as "Parson" but this may simply be the inside nickname of one mortician for another. However, Evangeline also asks Walter in another letter, half jokingly, if he could not perform their own marriage ceremony as a parson. |
A sampling of documents rescued from an attic on Ives St. in Mt. Carmel in 1975 by this writer,then a real estate salesman, as they were about to be destroyed. The collection (in my basement for 40+ years) will be transcribed on a blog (click on "A Yankee Romance"). All rights reserved Paul D.Keane.
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