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The Colonel marries his “darling little Bright Eyes”

140523 Blanche_wedding day 1905
Blanche, referred to by her husband as “Bright Eyes”

On this date in 1905, Col. John Hamilton Gillespie married his second wife, Judge McDaniels’s daughter Blanche, in Sarasota. They honeymooned in Scotland. — Entry in Yesterday’s Sarasota calendar by J. Whitcomb Rylee

The photo is from http://www.owenburns.com/, who honored Col. Gillespie in 2011 with merriment and golf.

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