Harris - Pickett Society Marriage

The World of Society

Mrs. Harris and Mr. Pickett
To Be Married Today

Other Weddings of the “Best Day of
All” — A Debutante Lunch-
eon - Notes

Mrs. Sallie Vawter Harris and Mr. Theo-
dore J. Pickett are to be married at 4
o’clock this afternoon at the residence of
the brother-in-law and sister of the former,
Judge and Mrs. William A.Milliken, 2017
Massachusetts avenue. The Rev. Frederick
D. Power of the Vermont Avenue Christian
Church will officiate. There will be no at-
tendants, and Judge Milliken will give the
bride away. As both the bride and her sis-
ter are in mourning, only the immediate
members of the family are to be present.
The bride has been engaged for several
years in journalistic work, and has a wide
acquaintance in society, to whom the an-
nouncement of her marriage will have a
great interest. She is a native of Kentucky,
the daughter of the late Rev. Philemon
and Mrs. Martha Humphreys Vawter. She
belongs to the Beverley, Humphreys, Jamie-
son and Vawter families of Virginia and
Kentucky. Mr. Pickett is the son of the
late Col. John T Pickett, who was in the
consular service of the United States, served
in a military and diplomatic capacity under
the confederacy and accompanied Lopez
to Cuba, where he took command at the
battle of Carenas. His grandfather was
the late Col. James C. Pickett, an officer
of the war of 1812, later served as judge
advocate of the United States army, and
was minister to Peru and Colombia. Mr.
Pickett’s grandmother was the daughter of
Gov. Desha of Kentucky. He is a well-
known lawyer and clubman of this city, be-
longing to the Metropolitan, Century, Wash-
ington, Golf and other clubs. After De-
cember 1 Mr. and Mrs. Pickett will be at
home at 1943 Biltmore street.

"The World of Society," Evening Star (Washington, District of Columbia), 14 November 1906, page 5; digital images, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : viewed online September 2019).

Harris Pickett Marriage

"Social and Personal," The Washington Post (Washington, District of Columbia), 14 November 1906, page 7; digital image, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : viewed online September 2019).

Mrs. Sallie Vawter Harris and Mr.
Theodore J. Pickett will be married at
4 o'clock this afternoon at the home of
Mrs. Harris' brother-in-law and sister,
Judge and Mrs. William A. Milliken, 2017
Massachusetts avenue. There will be no
attendants. On account of mourning, the
ceremony will be witnessed only by the
immediate members of the family. IT
will be performed by Rev. Frederick D.
Power, pastor of the Vermont avenue
Christian Church. Mrs. Harris is a native
of Kentucky, a daughter of the late Rev.
Philemon Vawter and of the late Mrs.
Martha Humphreys Vawter. She belongs
to the Beverley, Humphreys, Jamison,
and Vawter families of Virginia, Ken-
tucky and Mississippi.
Mr. Pickett, who is the son of the late
Col. John T. Pickett, of Confederate
fame, was in the consular service of the
United States, and held diplomatic and
military positions under the Confederacy.
Col. Pickett accompanied Lopez to Cuba
and commanded at the battle of Cardenas.
Mr. Pickett's grandfather was Col. James
C. Pickett, judge advocate of the army
during the war of 1812. The bridegroom
is a well-known clubman and lawyer of
Washington.

Fan Club Find

While trying to verify a death date, I cam across a wonderful article on the VAWTER family that actually provides clues about the Crawford family. These clues are surnames of a potential FAN club for my Crawford research.

Newspapers.com
The Star Press (Muncie, Indiana)
14 Nov 1909, Sun
page 14

“About Our Ancestors” by Eleanor Lexington

The Vawter Family

Conflicting Information

Do you use Ancestry's 'leaf' hints? If so, do you occasionally find a hint or two that have information that doesn't fit with what you already know about the person or family?

I usually find such hints among the multitude of hints for the people in my trees. Usually, those 'incorrect' hints are 'way off'. These 'way off' hints are for events in England when the person/family is living in the United States. Today, however, I came across a hint for a death date that was a few months off of the date shown on Find a Grave.

The hint was and index record with reference to a film number on Family Search for District of Columbia Deaths and Burials, 1840-1964. Even though the death date was different, the family names matched.

Crawford Genealogy Collaboration

My Crawford line is a brick wall! I'm fairly certain my line goes back to Virginia from Kentucky -- but I can't find any land records, court records or even family members to help me go back a generation. Many other Crawford researchers also have brick walls -- maybe not in Kentucky, but somewhere in colonial America.

Not only are we struggling with our paper research, but it is difficult to break thru these brick walls by finding common ancestors from our DNA results. Since we are trying to go back 200 or more years, our autosomal DNA isn't of much help. And, our yDNA matches are for names and places that aren't familiar to us.

Crawford Clan DNA Challenge

Have you had your DNA tested? If so, did DNA help you answer a question? Based on Facebook posts I've seen, it appears that DNA is helping adoptees to connect with their birth family.

In my case, I wasn't hoping to identify a close relative. Instead, I was hoping (and still am hoping) to identify my 5th great grandparents -- particularly on my dad's CRAWFORD line. It's been 3 years since I first spit in a test tube (autosomal DNA) and since my brother swabbed his cheek (yDNA). That's 3 years of working with various DNA results and few clues about this mysterious CRAWFORD grandfather.

As I'm trying to learn more about our yDNA results, so I can make sense of how we might fit in the Crawford Clan, I've come to a couple of conclusions:

• There's too little data - I need more 5th, 6th and 7th cousins to do a yDNA test
• Determining relationships is VERY dependent on the accuracy of BOTH of our family trees