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

Read our very own Sue Blue’s article about Col. Gillespie for Scene Sarasota.

See the Gillespie home, before and after Blanche had a greenhouse added.

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