Bodice

Object/Artifact

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Bodice

Entry/Object ID

CW 3662

Description

Bodice. Woman's bodice; black taffeta; with black cloth-covered buttons; Back has ten small decorative tassels with buttons. Circa 1870. Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

unknown

Material

Taffeta

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Lansberry, Mrs. Lee B.; Mrs. John R. May, Frances Duncan Carson

Provenance

Notes

Lee B. Lansberry Obituary (Feb. 15, 2002): Attorney. In 1975, he formed a partnership with his son, Robert, practicing law as Lansberry and Lansberry. He became counsel of the firm in 1978 and retired to Spartanburg, S.C., where he was active in the Spartanburg Lions Club. He was a member of La Belle Vallee Lodge 232 in Jersey Shore and American Legion Post 210 in Doylestown. Mr. Lansberry was a member of Neshaminy-Warwick Presby- terian Church and was later a deacon and elder of Doylestown Presbyterian Church. He also was a member of First Presbyterian Church of Spartanburg. Two sons, Paul Duncan Lansberry and his wife, Sue, of Spartanburg and Robert Lee Lansberry and Sally Armstrong, of Doylestown, survive him. He also is survived by a step-granddaughter, Jennifer Scott Killian, of Spartanburg. Graveside services will be held 11 a.m. Friday at Neshaminy-Warwick Presbyterian Church Cemetery on Bristol Road in Hartsville. In lieu of flowers, contribu- tions in his memory may be made to the Bucks County Bar Foundation, 135 E. State St., Doylestown, PA 18901, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, Grand Central Station, P.O. Box 4777, New York, NY 10163 or to any of the above churches. Reed Stembach Funeral Home, Doylestown." Mrs. Lansberry is the former Frances Duncan Carson.