Number      00928

Scan Date     7/17/02

Time Period     1942

Subject Matter     Military Weddings

Location      Monroe, North Carolina

Description 

Photo taken during World War II ( Camp Sutton).  The couple is First Lieutenant and Mrs. Paul Laird, the former Dorothea Ethelyn Thompson, who were married June 19, 1942 at Camp Sutton.  They rode through town immediately following the ceremony with Laird's regiment following in trucks.


 

Photographer (if known)

Notes

Marriage date and bride's name from "Union County North Carolina Marriages, Vol. IV, 1931-1945" by Otha B. & Frances R. Small.

Photo information from The Charlotte News, June 23, 1942

Information updated 3/17/10 -pmp

Measurements of original photograph

Height   3 1/2"

Width  5"

Type of photograph     Black and White