Newspapers are a wonderful resource for finding not only the genealogical date, but the also the details that make a person’s life colorful.
For instance, from the marriage announcement for T.P. Drake and Alice Hocker, we find they were married at her sister’s home on 1426 Hubbard Street, Jacksonville and that the decorations included palms and cut flowers, that the bride wore “a costume of white satin trimmed with pearls and point lace,” and that “her long bridal veil was caught up with a pearl and diamond ornament.”[1] We also learn that they planned to live in Florida for most of the year, but spend their summers elsewhere.
Have you found any interesting details about the lives of your ancestors from newspapers?
Footnotes
- “Hocker-Drake,” The Ocala Banner, Ocala, Florida, Friday, 5 December 1902, page 1, column 2, digital image; The Library of Congress, “Chronicling America” (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88074815/1902-12-05/ed-1/seq-3/ : viewed 7 Nov 2012). ↩
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Kris Hocker, "Friday Find: Hocker—Drake Marriage Announcement," /genealogy the genealogy & family research site of Kris Hocker, modified 7 Nov 2012 (http://www.krishocker.com/friday-find-hocker-drake-marriage-announcement/ : accessed 19 May 2013).Content copyright © Kris Hocker. Please do not copy without prior permission, attribution, and link back to this page.