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My maternal grandparents’ wedding announcement from 1913

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 | Family Tree - Jones Side |

Melissa found this on TNGenWebBlount:

Maryville (TN) Times July 3, 1913

Mr. Wiley G. Everett came to South Louisville last Wednesday, June 24th and claimed as his bride Miss Fannie Gourley McCosh.

Mrs. Everett is a charming and accomplished young lady, who by her winning ways makes friends of all she meets and will be greatly missed at the above named place, and all who have the pleasure of her acquaintance are delighted to know that she will make her future home in Maryville.

Mr. and Mrs. Everett boarded the train Wednesday evening and were pleasant visitors at the beautiful home of the brides sister Mrs. T.G. Callahan of Mentor.

Mrs. Everett is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. McCosh and the writer with a host of other friends wish the young couple all the success, happiness and prosperity this life affords, and hope their troubles will be few and far between as they travel the journey of life together.

My maternal grandmother’s family, the McCoshes, were well off. They owned a marble mine just down the road in Louisville, TN. The Times writer seemed to be a friend of the family, which might make sense for a prominent family. Gourley was Fannie McCosh’s mother’s maiden name.

The McCoshes disapproved of my maternal grandfather, Wiley Everett, because he was of modest means and didn’t come from a prominent family. On my mother’s birth certificate his occupation is listed as “carpenter.” He later worked for TVA.

I have a reproduction of an early Maryville phone listing that shows Wiley Everett living on McGinley Street in Maryville near Five Points and Everett Hill. My parents later lived on Everett Hill and opened their carpet store (Dorolee’s Carpet House) a half dozen blocks away on Broadway.

Fannie McCosh passed away in 1929, three years after my mother was born. The other children were old enough to fend for themselves, but my mother was sent to the Maryville orphanage. Why the McCoshes didn’t take her in I can only guess. She was adopted by the Whitehead family in Walland. Her father later remarried three times. He eventually settled one county over in Lenoir City.

Fannie and Wiley are buried in Grandview Cemetery in Maryville, TN at a monument for Everetts and McCoshes.

1 Comment to My maternal grandparents’ wedding announcement from 1913

Kathy T.
November 6, 2009

This is pretty spectacular… we had a little old lady in my hometown in Kentucky who only stopped writing her little “social” column about 20 years ago. They just kept her on with features like, “Mr. and Mrs. Thomas traveled to Nashville to see their daughter, Kathy, and her family. While there they enjoyed a show at Malco Cinemas.” Boy has journalism changed, hasn’t it?
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