Road Trip #Whatever, I've Lost Count

Those enthusiastic road-trippers, Charles and Constance Chester, hit the road again in the autumn of 1923.


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"Local and Personal," Hobart News, Nov. 15, 1923

Sela Chester was one of Charles and Constance's children; he was about 24 years old.

Raymond and Maud McClain, Constance's brother and sister-in-law nephew and his wife, had traveled with the Chesters on a 1,000-mile road trip in 1919.

Mamie Hull was the teenaged sister of Charles and Constance's son-in-law, Homer.

Jennie and Homer

Having been showered with gifts to start her own household, Jennie Chester married Homer Hull on January 5, 1921, and the young couple made plans to get as far away from Ainsworth as they could without leaving the country.


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From the Hobart News of 6 Jan. 1921.

The groom must have been pretty well fixed if he could afford a complete set of sterling silver.

I had lived half a lifetime without ever having seen the word "duvequyn," and an internet search turns up only "dyvetyne" (in various spellings), which may be what is meant, since it was used for clothing in the early part of the 20th century.

Looking at various images of reindeer, I suppose Jennie's suit was grayish-brown.

It's interesting that she was married in the Catholic Church. So far as I know, the Charles Chester family (while apparently not particularly religious) was Protestant; for example, when Kittie died in 1910, a Methodist pastor officiated at her funeral. If the whole family converted, I did not hear about it. Jennie may have been the exception.

Anyway, the Chester house was now devoid of daughters.

A Shower For Jennie Chester

From the "Local Drifts" column of the Hobart Gazette of November 5, 1920: "Miss Jennie Chester was tendered a miscellaneous shower last Friday in honor of her approaching marriage to Homer Hull of Spokane, Wash."

I wonder how she met someone from Spokane?

Jennie, age 21, was the only daughter still in the Chester house, Tressy having married and moved to Chicago in 1919 (and little Kittie in her grave).