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Valina Marguerite Gillespie Blake

Birth
Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Death
15 Nov 1973 (aged 84)
New Canaan, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Burial
Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA Add to Map
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Valina was the daughter of Richard Henry Gillespie & Sarah Elizabeth Scofield.


Valina traveled with her siblings, Edna, Elsie and Kingsley, in the early 1920s. On 9 May 1926 they arrived Quebec on the S.S. Empress of France from Southampton, returning to the U.S. through Vermont. In August 1929 the three sisters returned to New York City on the S.S. Transylvania from Glasgow.


Valina Marguerite Gillespie (40) of Stamford and Eugene Carson Blake (22) of Kansas City, MO applied for a marriage license on 31 August 1929 in Patchogue, Brookhaven, on Long Island. Both were teachers and their first marriage. Eugene was the son of Orville P. Blake and Lulu Carson.


On 12 September 1929 in Stony Brook, Suffolk County [Long Island] they were married by Ford C. Ottman, clergyman, of Stamford, CT.


Valina was the daughter of Richard Henry Gillespie & Sarah Elizabeth Scofield.


Valina traveled with her siblings, Edna, Elsie and Kingsley, in the early 1920s. On 9 May 1926 they arrived Quebec on the S.S. Empress of France from Southampton, returning to the U.S. through Vermont. In August 1929 the three sisters returned to New York City on the S.S. Transylvania from Glasgow.


Valina Marguerite Gillespie (40) of Stamford and Eugene Carson Blake (22) of Kansas City, MO applied for a marriage license on 31 August 1929 in Patchogue, Brookhaven, on Long Island. Both were teachers and their first marriage. Eugene was the son of Orville P. Blake and Lulu Carson.


On 12 September 1929 in Stony Brook, Suffolk County [Long Island] they were married by Ford C. Ottman, clergyman, of Stamford, CT.




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  • Created by: CJ
  • Added: Mar 8, 2021
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/223997745/valina_marguerite-blake: accessed ), memorial page for Valina Marguerite Gillespie Blake (14 Jan 1889–15 Nov 1973), Find a Grave Memorial ID 223997745, citing Woodland Cemetery, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA; Maintained by CJ (contributor 49514005).