Wedding Wednesday

Today is Wedding Wednesday at Geneabloggers.........so here's my tidbit for today:

                                Above is a photo of my grandparents while they were courting!

Alfred Tennyson & Naomi Eileen (Herzog) Vaughn's Engagement photo

Alfred Tennyson & Naomi Eileen (Herzog) Vaughn were married November 17, 1943 in Seattle, Washington while Alfred was on Military (Army) medical emergency leave to be with his family while his father was dying in Entiat, Washington (outside of Wenatchee).  This precious couple was my maternal grandparents.  Grandpa loved to write poetry and was very gifted at writing stories.

Grandpa met Grandma in December 1942 at the First Church of the Nazarene in Seattle.  She was playing her violin, when they were introduced by a man named Bill Campbell, a mutual friend.  In Early 1943, Grandpa asked for Grandma's hand in marriage.  He asked her if she would accept a "special ring" and become his bride.  Being raised in a conservative home, she asked for "time to consider", but with a kindly "twinkle" in her eye she said "Yes!"  They were married at the First Nazarene church in Seattle.  The reception was held at the Reverend Edward's home.

Joseph George Vaughn, age 20

          Here are the children that were present at Joseph George Vaughn's funeral.  

On November the 18th,   Grandpa & Grandma Vaughn left to visit his father, Joseph George Vaughn in Entiat, Washington, who was ill. Grandpa Joseph George Vaughn, then presented Grandpa Alfred Tennyson Vaughn with the Gold Headed Cane he received from his father Cornelius Vaughn, a book of Bible Studies written by his Grandfather George Hand.