Wedding Wednesday - Depression Marriage

The Wedding of My Paternal Grandparents 

January 30, 1930

Chestnut Street Methodist Church*

Chestnut Street Parish House

 

  "The marriage of Miss Mattie L. Leighton of Deering Street to Howard C. Seavey of Brackett Street will be solemnized at 8:30 o'clock this morning in the parish house of the Chestnut Street Methodist Church.  The Rev. Ralph Stoody will use the double ring service and the couple will be unattended.

  Miss Leighton's gown will be of independence blue crepe with hat and shoes in harmony. She will wear a corsage of Ophelia roses and pink and orchid sweet peas.

  Miss Leighton, who has made her home with her aunt, Miss Pauline M. Lovell of Deering Street, was graduated from the Portland public schools and is employed by the New England Telephone & Telegraph Company.

  Mr. Seavey was graduated from the public schools of Bridgton and is employed at the postoffice (sic).

  Following a wedding trip to New York, Mr. and Mrs. Seavey will make their home at 271 Brackett Street."

 

Marriage Solemnized

   "Mr. and Mrs. Howard C. Seavey (Miss Mattie L. Leighton) were married Thursday morning in the Chestnut Street Methodist Church parish house** by the Rev. Ralph Stoody.***"

*  Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. No longer a place of worship, but the home of Restaurant Grace.
**At that time, Rev. Ralph Stoody's Chestnut Street Church had a large and affluent congregation. To be married in the church may have been beyond Howard and Mattie's means.

*** Stoody later became quite prominent in the United Methodist Church in the area of church public relations (the Stoody-West Fellowship for Graduate Study in Journalism is named for him and Arthur West.)