So I have yet to find a newspaper item or blurb about the wedding of my grandfather’s parents, Joe Dixon (Jr.) and Mina Kershaw Dixon. My biological scanner may be getting tired after scanning several years of weekly papers. His two sisters marriages were reported and the Kershaw family was reasonably prominent within the area.
But I did find a brief, but unusual mention that seems to be the birth of our beloved Aunt Alice. My grandfather’s oldest sibling and therefore my dad’s (also Wilma, Jim and Don’s) aunt. When Mina died not long after giving birth to the youngest child, Lucy, it was Alice who helped her dad raise the rest of the brood. Joe (Jr.) remarried, but not until years later when most of the children were grown or at least teenaged.
It says, “...A new arrival took up a permanent abode at Joe Dixon’s January 21. Joe says it is a “Baritoness”. Note that the J.E. Robinson’s also announced a child, also a girl by using the term “Drum Majoress”. I’m only guessing, but I’m thinking that Joe (Jr.) may have been able to carry tune. Also possible is that both Joe (Jr.) and J.E. Robinson were members of the Dixon Precinct Coronet Band, which marched and played on several occasions in Albion. No individual members of the band were ever mentioned, but they were well thought of. Trouble begins with T? I think we are still awaiting the phonograph, so it’s live music or none at all.
Do you see the mention of C.M. Crawford doing a “thriving business with his sawmill”?
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