{"id":5,"date":"2023-04-03T23:05:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T23:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francoamericangravy.com\/wills.\/?p=5"},"modified":"2023-04-24T17:56:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:56:34","slug":"jack-and-libby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francoamericangravy.com\/wills\/jack-and-libby\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack and Libby"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Albert Wills and Marie Elizabeth Bissonnette Wills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John \u201cJack\u2019 Albert Wills (John A. Wills) and Marie Elizabeth \u2018Libby\u2019 Bissonnette married on 26 August 1903.\u00a0 My mother told me they \u2018honeymooned\u2019 in Key West, Florida where John wanted to remain and make a living by establishing a photography studio where he would take portraits like this one.\u00a0 \u00a0I have no evidence of that but there is a small piece written on the back of a card indicating they were in Charleston, South Carolina for a period of time.<\/p>\n

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In 1903, marriages between a Protestant and a Catholic were rare.\u00a0 They were called ‘mixed marriages’ and strongly discouraged, banned by Catholic and Protestant churches and outright opposed by parents of the couple.<\/p>\n

That was the case for John A. Wills.\u00a0 His parents JAB Wills and Anne Reed, devout Methodists, opposed the union of their son and namesake with a Roman Catholic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John \u201cJack\u2019 Albert Wills (John A. Wills) and Marie Elizabeth \u2018Libby\u2019 Bissonnette married on 26 August 1903.\u00a0 My mother told me they \u2018honeymooned\u2019 in Key West, Florida where John wanted to remain and make a living by establishing a photography studio where he would take portraits like this one.\u00a0 \u00a0I have no evidence of that … <\/p>\n

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