Name: The February 1962 Beacon reports two Beaver Island wedding anniversaries
Start: 1962-01-24
End: 1962-03-03
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Dates: 1962-01-24 – 1962-03-03
Kind: Marriage
Participants: James H. O’Donnell (participant) · Vernon Hugh "Dick" LaFreniere (participant) · Musette LaFreniere (participant)
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: communitydemography
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The February 1962 Beaver Beacon marks James “the Bay” O’Donnell’s fiftieth wedding anniversary on January 24, 1912, and Dick and Musette LaFreniere’s twenty-fifth anniversary on March 3. The O’Donnell notice says the couple had eight children, seven living, twenty-nine grandchildren, and twenty-two great-grandchildren; the LaFreniere notice says they had three sons.

Evidence and limits

These are community anniversary notices. They preserve the printed family counts without treating them as complete genealogical records.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, February 1962, “Anniversaries.”
Reports James “the Bay” O’Donnell’s fiftieth anniversary on January 24 and Dick and Musette LaFreniere’s twenty-fifth anniversary on March 3. It gives family counts for the O’Donnell notice and says the LaFrenieres had three sons, but does not provide marriage certificates.
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Beaver Beacon, February 1962, held issue PDF, source scan.
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Beaver Island Archive, “The February 1962 Beacon reports two Beaver Island wedding anniversaries”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-wedding-anniversaries-january-march-1962/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1962, “Anniversaries.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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