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I'm glad she found love again after her tragic first marriage. Still, I couldn't help but be amused by that announcement: it doesn't give the slightest hint that either the bride or her mother ever had any connection to the name Sauter. Was Ed such a bad guy that he had to be erased? … Maybe they just didn't want to remind people about the divorce. As if anybody in that small town needed reminding.
Ed had gone to live somewhere in southern Illinois, or so he said when he came back to Hobart for a brief visit early in June 1915. Apparently he did not attend his daughter's wedding: the day it took place, July 24, Ed was in Chicago watching rescue operations on the capsized Eastland. (The Gazette mentioned a story Ed related about an infant taken alive from the hull of the ship eight hours after it capsized; the child had been suspended above the water inside by a nail on which its clothing caught.*)
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*The Gazette report gives the date only as "Sunday," but the Eastland disaster occurred on Saturday, July 24.
Sources:
♦ "Epps-Boyd." Hobart News 29 July 1915.
♦ "Local Drifts." Hobart Gazette 11 June 1915; 30 July 1915.
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