Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It’s Saturday Night again –
Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision.
1) How did your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and other greats meet each other? Do you know any details?
The key question this week in Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun prompt is
Do you know any details?
And my answer would have to be ‘not really’.
My parents met while both were students at Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia, Kansas. My father was a science student and rented a room in a private residene northwest of campus. While my mother likely lived with her parents in Emporia, she was a member of the Delta Sigma Epsilon sorority. Since mom was a business major, the likelyhood of them being in the same class would have been low. Thus, the details of their meeting are missing.
My grandmother, Winnie Currey, moved from Kansas City to Dodge City, Kansas to help her sister, Myrtle Currey Gaskill when Myrtle’s first child was born. The only story I have about my grandparents prior to their marriage is one where they would often play cards at Myrtle’s. Myrtle and her husband Claud Gaskill lived at 712 Military avenue in Dodge City, Thus, Myrtle’s house was near the house of the parents of Leon Crawford. Winnie Currey and Leon Crawford were married in Myrtle’s house almost two years after Winnie moved to Dodge City.
On my mom’s side of my tree, I’m not sure how my grandmother, Pauline Mentzer, met her husband, Edward Osmund Briles. The Briles family lived in section 12 of Township 23S range 15E. The Menzter family lived in section 36 of Township 24 South, range 14 east. While it is possible that they met at a social event in Vernon (section 9 of T24SR16E), the two homesteads were too far apart to be considered neighbors.
However, there is a newspaper article that indicates that Pauline attended a party at the home of her future in-laws in 1915. Pauline and Edward were married about six months after the party.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Briles entertained at their home Saturday evening the following young people: Mr. and Mrs. Earl Smith, Bernard Allen and Fred Eichron; Misses Myra Andreas, Nona Fitch, Luella Shields, Mary Gunnels, Pauline Mentzer and Lulu Briles; Messrs. Frank Leonard, Will Briles, WIllard Brown, Max Myers, Henry Smith, Earl Brewer, Ed and Leslie Turner, Paul Mentzer, Osmond and Glen Briles.
“Prairie Rose,” digital image, The Daily Republican (Burlington, Kansas), 8 April 1915; digital image, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : viewed online 26 January 2017).
Thus, I don’t have details for how my parents or grandparents met. That’s likely because I don’t think I ever asked. So, if you are just starting a genealogy journey, ask those couples in your tree that are still living how they met.