Name: The February 1963 Beacon reports two Island-linked January weddings
Start: 1963-01-12
End: 1963-01-19
Location: Chicago

The February 1963 Beacon reports two Island-linked January weddings

Also Bonnie Gallett John Brown wedding 1963 · James Smith Barbara Johnson wedding 1963

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

Locator map: Chicago highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago

Took place at ChicagoLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.

TypeEvent

Dates1963-01-12 – 1963-01-19

WithinChicago · place/south-bend

ErasModern era

Event

Dates: 1963-01-12 – 1963-01-19
Kind: Marriage
Where: Chicago · place/south-bend
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: marriagefamilycommunity
Within: Chicago · place/south-bend

Summary

The February 1963 Beaver Beacon reports Bonnie Gallett’s January 12 marriage to John Terrance Brown in Chicago and James Smith’s January 19 marriage to Barbara Johnson in South Bend. The notices identify Island family connections.

Evidence and limits

These are newspaper wedding notices, not civil or church certificates.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, February 1963, “Weddings.”
Reports Bonnie Gallett’s January 12 marriage to John Terrance Brown in Chicago and James Smith’s January 19 marriage to Barbara Johnson in South Bend, with Island family connections.
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Beaver Beacon, February 1963, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held five-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published wedding notices; it does not provide civil or church certificates.
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Beaver Island Archive, “The February 1963 Beacon reports two Island-linked January weddings”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-winter-weddings-february-1963/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1963, “Weddings.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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