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Part 4.  Maple Trees Remain to Mark the Site

When our parents were married on February 23, 1881 in the little church on the village green in Cazenovia, my mother said it was the wildest winter weather that had ever come out of the heavens.

They went to Auburn on their wedding trip, staying with Aunt Ellen Stapleton who was my mother's aunt and godmother. Also - Aunt Ellen had planned and worked on the wedding dress - which was a beautiful plum taffeta.

Now about the dress - The bodice had a little stand up collar with white ruching - and down the front was a row of iridescent buttons. The skirt was draped and the small train was edged with several rows of hand sewn pleated ruffles - At the back of the bodice was a flat taffeta bow edged with silk fringe to match the dress. On her head she wore a small white satin bonnet with two white curly ostrich plumes -

When President Grover Cleveland married Miss Frances Folsom, they came to Cazenovia on their wedding trip - All the villagers were invited to a reception for them - My mother went wearing her wedding gown and bonnet. Many times afterward I heard her describe the beautiful Mrs. Grover Cleveland.

Mother weighed then about 110 pounds. Later, when she gained twenty or thirty pounds she decided to cut up the skirt and make a dress for me.

At school programs in Columbia Hall - I often wore my best dress - plum-colored taffeta with a white dimity apron.

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