I must have been about ten years old when my grandmother, Evelyn Hauer Kerr, gave this little cup to me. If she told me anything about it at the time, I surely don't remember now. I happened to find it the other day while I was looking for something else. I hadn't seen it for quite awhile and I'd been wondering where it was; I'd been wanting to put it in The Mausoleum with my other heirlooms.
Oddly, I hadn't remembered there was a handwritten date on the bottom. It must not have meant anything to me when I was a kid. But today, as a family historian, I went straight to my family tree database to see what happened on June 21, 1893.
I started with Evelyn. She wasn't born until 1894, and her husband Rosmer was born in 1892, so I moved on to Evelyn's parents. And there it was. Felix Hauer and Lizzie Schulte were married on June 21, 1893, in Detroit, Michigan.
But . . . ??? What an odd little wedding keepsake! Or is it a wedding keepsake at all? Who wrote the date on the bottom? What, if anything, is the significance of the cup? These questions will go unanswered; there's no one left who would know.
4 comments:
Very curious - but still, a neat little keepsake. Were any notices/articles published about the wedding at the time?
Not that I've found, Greta. After your question, I checked the Detroit Free Press archives via ProQuest, but didn't find anything about the marriage of Felix and Elizabeth. I did find a few other items of interest though, so it was worth doing! Thanks for the nudge!
Interesting! It looks like a child's play cup, but the date written on the bottom is intriguing. Please keep us posted if you find anything else.
Thanks, Amy, I will. You just never know when some more of my grandma's notes might turn up, or what little nuggets they might contain!
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