EDNA SHETHAR DAVIS (1890-1989)
Marriage and Family
How did Edna and Lou meet? I wish I had thought to ask this question when Grandmother was still alive, particularly as my father and his brothers do not know. They must have met when Lou was stationed in New York on the ______, but how exactly is not known. I did not realize until I was long grown up how very different their backgrounds were, I don't even think I realized that my grandmother wasn't from the South until I was a teenager. Their families' social and economic statuses were similar in their respective hometowns, but the societies they came from were very different.
At any rate, they had met by at least ____. It appears that they were engaged for several years, and had decided to wait to get married until after Lou's long overseas tour of duty would be over; he had decided to take an extra ____ years aboard ships for career purposes. So when they got married, they were older than average for the times, Lou was 34 years old, and Edna was a few weeks shy of 28. They were married on June 8, 1918, at the home of Edna's sister and brother-in-law, Frances and Harry Beales, in Greenwich, Connecticut. Edna's mother had died a few years before, and she was estranged from her father (and in fact, an announcement of Edna and Lou's engagement in the newspaper referred to her father as "the late Edwin Shethar", when he was very much alive).
At any rate, they had met by at least ____. It appears that they were engaged for several years, and had decided to wait to get married until after Lou's long overseas tour of duty would be over; he had decided to take an extra ____ years aboard ships for career purposes. So when they got married, they were older than average for the times, Lou was 34 years old, and Edna was a few weeks shy of 28. They were married on June 8, 1918, at the home of Edna's sister and brother-in-law, Frances and Harry Beales, in Greenwich, Connecticut. Edna's mother had died a few years before, and she was estranged from her father (and in fact, an announcement of Edna and Lou's engagement in the newspaper referred to her father as "the late Edwin Shethar", when he was very much alive).