Old McDonalds

I've been trying to tie up some loose ends in my family history, and this week it's been the McDonald line. My aunt gave me some copied pages from the McDonald Family Record, a book by George F. MacDonald and compiled by Mrs. R. H. Shriver in 1960. It's been enormously helpful and occasionally gives bits of interesting stories. Here's one favorite from page 35:

"Of the above, Eliza died when a young girl; Mary was engaged to a young man who was killed in the Civil War; and Martha yielded to family influence and broke her engagement to a young man of whom her parents did not approve. Capt. Oliver A. Douds, also, was the victim of a blighted romance. The three (Mary, Martha, and Oliver) lived in the old homestead until the property was purchased by the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. Then they removed to Beaver [Pennsylvania].

Mary and Martha were always daintily dressed; and the white kid gloves they wore to church (in a day when such gloves were rarely seen) were reverently admired by their youthful kinswomen."

Most reverently, I'm sure.