The Honorable Secretary of the Launton Historical Society, Pat Tucker, took the picture of what I had always thought was a Congregational Church group picture taken at Wretchwick Farm, to the Bicester Historical Society group. No one could help identify anyone. Then I realized most of the people are in black. And a few are also in the picture of Mary Helena's wedding. Relatives? Now we are wondering if the gathering was for a funeral. Maybe Ann Parrott Smith's, who died five years before Mary Helena's marriage. But Pat wonders about the "buttonholes" - flowers in the buttonholes. She wonders if they would have done that at a funeral.
I sent a package with about 20 pictures to a distant Smith cousin in Banbury, David Smith, to see if he can identify anyone. He doesn't have a computer so it had to go snail mail.
These pictures are really becoming a great puzzle. Fun.
We woke up yesterday just a little chilly. I turned the furnace up but it didn’t go on. We had to put on heavier clothes. The furnace man came and found the ignition thing was broken. It had been replaced five years ago. Then the house was comfortable.
Donnette/Mom
