1918: She Wore Skunk Fur for her Wedding !

I found this great write-up on the 1918 marriage of Colin M Ingersoll and Marie Louise Harrison in the New York Times:

The marriage was solemnized at noon yesterday in the Church of the Resurrection on East 74^th Street …. The bride wore a brown cloth costume embroidered in gold and trimmed with skunk fur, a brown velvet hat embroidered in gold and trimmed with an ostrich plume, and carried a skunk muff and violets.

Sounds strange, but was likely very lovely.Check out this fashion forum with some photos.

Given the increase in skunks in my neighborhood over the last two years, I almost wish it would come back into fashion.

Colin M Ingersoll, Jr (1858-1848) was the son of Julia Pratt and Colin Ingersoll, grandson of Zadock Pratt and Abigail Watson. His first wife, Theresa, died in 1910. 

Rhode Island Cemetery Transcriptions

Since many of my ancestors in the extended and interwoven Watson, Peckham, Hazard, Coggeshall, Easton, Taylor families lived and died in Rhode Island, I wanted to thank all those involved in the extensive Rhode Island Cemeteries Database project begun in 1990.  The result of their work is published on Rootsweb and will be of great assistance to anyone searching for early burials in Rhode Island.  They currently have 458,000 records from 3400 cemeteries in this database. The project's home page provides a history of the database as well as cemetery description data. 

Checking on one branch of the Taylors, I found these records with the final code identifying the cemetery.
 
TAYLOR    Patience    [Arnold]    b~1685   d   9 Dec 1739    NT 011
                    Robert                         b~1689   d 26 Nov 1762    NT 001
                    Rebecca                      b~1720    d 15 Apr 1782     NT 001


Patience was Robert's first wife and her maiden name was included in the listing. 
She is buried in the Arnold burial ground, denoted by code NT 011 and described as:
 

    NEWPORT HISTORICAL CEMETERY #: NT011     GOV. BENEDICT ARNOLD GRAVEYARD          
       Location: 40 ft north of PELHAM ST at TEL pole # 7     
       71 burials with 57    inscriptions from 1677 to 1834
       60  ft x 60   ft in good condition enclosed with a metal fence

       sign in good condition

Years later when Robert and third wife Rebecca died, they were buried in the Island
Cemetery, denoted as NT 001 and described as:
   

    NEWPORT HISTORICAL CEMETERY #: NT001     ISLAND CEMETERY  

       Location: 20 ft north of WARNER ST at TEL pole # 8     
       10000 burials

Rebecca's parents, Benjamin Coggeshall and Sarah Easton, are buried in the
Coggeshall burial ground in Newport (NT 016).

    NEWPORT HISTORICAL CEMETERY #: NT016     COGGESHALL CEMETERY   
     Location: 15 ft east of COGGESHALL AVE at TEL pole # 14    
     50 burials with 39    inscriptions from 1647 to 1958
     80  ft x 80   ft in excellent condition enclosed with a stone wall

Information on the location, number of graves and the condition of the cemetery 

can be very helpful for planning and a cemetery visit. 

Thank you, thank you to all who worked on this project !!