Name/Title
June 24, 1947 Miss Edna Tuthill has sent the Sarah Wells wedding dressEntry/Object ID
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Wedding dress, Robert McLeod Jackson, Edna Tuthill, Hamlet S RoeScope and Content
80th Annual Bull Picnic
Wednesday, August 27, 1947
AT STONE HOUSE
About Four Miles from Goshen
On The
SARAH WELLS TRAIL
G I F T S
The Secretary has received the following letter:
Mr. Robert McLeod Jackson, Secretary
Dear Mr. Jackson:
Miss Edna Tuthill of Birmingham, Alabama, formerly of Craigville, N.Y., has sent to me the Sarah Wells' [^1] wedding dress to be presented to our Association in memory of her late mother, Julia R. Tuthill. The dress is made of homespun linen decorated with colored flowers in woolen crewel work. It will be exhibited at the picnic and worn [^2] ~~returned~~ by my granddaughter, Miss Martha Jane Carpenter of Chester, a descendant of the eighth generation through the tribe [^3] of Mary. It will be worth an extra effort to attend our re-union just to see this and [^4] beautiful [^4] historic wedding dress.
Transcription Notes on Handwritten Edits:
[^1]: Wells': An apostrophe (indicated by a caret mark) was handwritten after "Wells".
[^2]: worn: The word "returned" is crossed out, and the word "worn" is handwritten above it.
[^3]: tribe: The word "tribe" is underlined in handwriting.
[^4]: and / beautiful: The words "and" (at the beginning of the line) and "beautiful" (at the end of the preceding line) are handwritten additions.