Over the weekend I received an interesting email from a
wedding planner named Ann Bergin. She
has a hobby of collecting antique wedding invitations. Ann is now downsizing, and looking for
descendants for some of these wedding invitations. She must have used Google or another search
engine, because she ended up at my blog when looking for a descendant of Percy
Emmons WOODWARD, who was married in 1904 to Grace Kinney.
I have him at my blog because he was the author of a
WOODWARD genealogy in 1940. My Woodwards
daughtered out in the 1700s, so he is not a very close relative to me. If you are a descendant, Ann would like to
give you the wedding invitation.
Here is some information:
Percy Emmons Woodward was the author of Some Descendants of Nathaniel
Woodward, Mathematician, Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press, 1940.
He is a descendant of Nathaniel Woodward who was born in
England about 1590 and died 11 May 1685 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Percy Emmons Woodward was married first to Grace Kinney in
1904. This is the wedding invitation Ann
Bergin would like to return to a family member.
They had no descendants and Graced died within a decade. All the descendants would come from Percy’s
second marriage to Marguerite Mosman.
Here is an obituary for Percy’s daughter-in-law,
Joanne. She was the wife of his son,
Burton.
My dearly beloved
mother, Joanne F. Woodward, wife of the late Dr. Burton M. Woodward, died
peacefully at Spring Lake Village in Santa Rosa, CA on September 24, 2008. She
was born on January 2, 1921 in Washington, OK and grew up in Jacksonville, FL.
She married Burton M. Woodward of Newtonville, MA in 1940. Together they
returned to Florida in 1947, living in Micanopy for 12 years before moving to
Gainesville. They maintained homes in Highlands, NC and Gainesville, FL until
they moved to Spring Lake Village, in Santa Rosa, California to be near their
younger daughter. Mrs. Woodward was very active in community activities while
in Florida, belonging to the Junior League of Gainesville, Gainesville Women's
Club, Gainesville Garden Club, League of Women Voters, Gainesville Golf and
Country Club, Gainesville Public Library and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. In
Micanopy, she was instrumental in having a building erected for public use to
encourage reading. She loved flowers and created beauty wherever she lived. A
loving mother, she had two daughters, Gaye and Joanne (Sissy). Her elder
daughter, the late Gaye Woodward Watson, had two children who are now grown
with children of their own. Ashley Watson Rogale, her granddaughter, lives in
Tampa, FL with her husband, Joe, and two daughters, Ansley and Andrea. Her
grandson, Todd Woodward Watson, lives in Orlando, FL with his wife, Lisa, and
their two children, Kate and Matthew. Her surviving daughter, Joanne Woodward
Dufficy lives in San Rafael, CA with her husband, Dan, and son, Ryan. An
Episcopal memorial service will be held in the chapel at Spring Lake Village on Saturday,
October 4th, at 2:30 p.m. The family requests that in lieu of flowers
donations be made to Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 100 NE 1st Street, Gainesville,
FL 32601.
Published in the Press
Democrat from October 2 to October 3, 2008
Ann would like to reunite the 1904 wedding invitation with a family member.
Any descendants of Percy Emmons Woodward can email Ann
Bergin at ACBergin@aol.com
Wow, i hope that invitation gets into family hands, and i hope you will share some photos of that invitation too, i would like to see how does it look like.
ReplyDeleteI'm very late in answering this, but not being a genealogist.... I am Percy Emmons Woodward's granddaughter, the daughter of Priscilla Pratt Woodward Morris. There is another granddaughter, Joanne Woodward Dufficy, the daughter of Burton M. Woodward, who wrote the above obituary of her mother. We would be very interested in seeing the invitation! If it hasn't already fallen prey to the downsizing project, that is.
ReplyDeleteDear ColoHarpare, I hope you contact Ann Bergin at ACBergin@aol.com. Good luck!
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