Name mix up recalls Gillespie childhood in hard times
Gillespie lived with the Albrecht family during a period of bread lines and coal collection for warmth. Dorothy Gillespie visited the Larsens with her four siblings until about age four, after which contact stopped. The family never formally adopted her, according to Baker.
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Family ties reveal long awaited connections across lives
Accounts show Gillespie and Christian attended the same city high school in different years but never met. Christian learned Gillespie had a full family after Gillespie married James Gillespie in 1947 and began a line of three children, four grandchildren, and four great grandchildren. Christian, also married in 1947, had nine children with Wollers as the youngest, and she has 15 grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
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Reunion of Larsen siblings plans trip to New Jersey
Christian Larsen will meet the Gillespie family in New Jersey in early March during Catherine Gunnells spring break from the College of Charleston. Catharine Gunnells and her parents Bridgitte and Perry Gunnells of Aiken plan to travel with Catherine to connect with Gillespie relatives. The family expresses eagerness for the reunion and regret Gillespie is no longer alive to join.
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Rebel Descendants Mark 150 Years Since Davis Inauguration
Confederate descendants and reenactors in Montgomery reenact the 150th anniversary of Jefferson Davis’s inauguration. They march from a slave auction fountain past a King church to the Capitol steps, near moments tied to Wallace and the Selma to Montgomery march.
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