No TIme for Sergeants
Just saw a promo on TCM (Turner Classic Movies) that they are going to show the classic No Time for Sergeants movie Sunday night at 8. After that they are showing Onionhead, another great Andy movie where he joins the Coast Guard. Just a heads up for those interested because -- Mayberry is: SHARING Mike Peacock ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Frances Bavier's marriage
A couple of weeks ago the topic came up about whether three specific actresses from TAGS (Frances Bavier, Aneta Corsaut, and Betty Lynn) had ever been married. I've been doing some checking on Frances' history and the results are sort of a mixed bag. We know for certain that she moved to Siler City after retiring from acting and became a recluse, living in a big old house with 15 cats (I guess that's better than hermitizing oneself in a cave with chipmunks and squirrels). I found statements online from someone who claimed to work for her there in Siler City, who insisted that she was once married briefly to an actor. Then I remembered that I had an old issue of Cats Magazine from March 1990 (three months after her death) with a feature story on Aunt Bea (sic) and her many cats. Most of the article was about finding homes for all of the cats, but it did have a lot of information about Frances herself, including the following: After graduating in 1925, Bavier joined a traveling theater group that toured the Midwest. She was married in 1928, but her marriage ended five years later in a conflict over career ambitions. Another source gave the name of her husband as Russell Carpenter, a career military man, and according to this source it seems they separated but never actually divorced, and that she regularly sent him money for many years after the split. If this is true, then they probably met while she was performing with the USO, but the part about her sending money seems unlikely to me. So, perhaps at least SOME of all this info is true. Here is where I would like some help. Maybe we can't get ahold of those lovely ladies from the Women's Historical Society who were trying to track down Nathan Tibbs' descendant, but there must be several folks here in our chapter who do genealogical research. If anybody subscribes to one of those services that grants access to those huge databases full of marriage records, please search 1928 or thereabouts for the names Frances Bavier and Russell Carpenter and see if anything comes up. Since she was born in New York that's as good a place as any to start. Paul Mulik ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
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ducks
Thanks Ken for sharing that video; just precious! Aunt Bee of Orlando ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Mayberry moment
I had a Mayberry moment recently in moving up the road about 15 miles. I had my handyman unload my pistol (kept on my nightstand) in order to transport it up here. When we got here and I went to re-load it, he handed me one bullet and said Here Barney. I about fell off my chair! Aunt Bee of Orlando ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Francis/Frances Bavier and Marriage
On 5/24/2014 10:00 AM, wbmutbb-requ...@wbmutbb.com wrote: So, perhaps at least SOME of all this info is true. Here is where I would like some help. Maybe we can't get ahold of those lovely ladies from the Women's Historical Society who were trying to track down Nathan Tibbs' descendant, but there must be several folks here in our chapter who do genealogical research please search 1928 or thereabouts for the names Frances Bavier and Russell Carpenter and see if anything comes up. Since she was born in New York that's as good a place as any to start. Paul, I'd like to see that CATS Magazine and learn their source of information. So far, I've come up with zilch when it comes to Frances Bavier's marriage. (The given name is alternately spelled Francis and Frances in records.) I've scoured marriage records readily available and have found nothing. I've opened 6 or 7 Bavier family trees, but none with any marriage information for Frances. One of these family trees states, Never married, and the others are simply mute on the subject. I've found Frances Bavier in census records for 1910, 1920, and 1930, as well as the Social Security Death Index. Frances Elizabeth Bavier was born 14 December 1902 in New York City, and, as we all know, she died 6 December 1989 in Siler City, Chatham, North Carolina. Her father was Charles Samuel Bavier (1850-1920) and her mother was Mary S. Birmingham (1870 - ?). In the 1910 census, she was living at 7 years of age in Manhattan, Ward 17, NYNY. Her father was then 51, her mother 40, her sister Marjorie was 17, her brother Charles A. was 12, and there were also two Birmingham children listed: Anna Birmingham 21, and Joseph Birmingham 15. In the 1920 census Frances is 17 and the Bavier family was living in Manhattan, Assembly District 7, NYNY. The head of the household was still her father, Chas S. Bavier 69. Mother Mary Birmingham has disappeared from record by this date. In the 1930 census, Frances is 25 and the head of household is now her sister Margaret, age 40. The two of them were living at this time in Queens, New York. I attempted a short search of the Russell Carpenter and J. Russell Carpenter you suggested, also with no luck. When I plug in dates and locations, I find several matching this name, but they all have other wives. The 1940 census shows James Russell Carpenter of New York as a widow, so this doesn't fit if you believe Frances married in 1928. And the search goes on . . . . If better information is found, I'll relay it to you. Larry in CO --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Re: WBMUTBB Digest, Vol 15, Issue 154
The quote was from Andy and he told Barney that's real democratic of you, meaning non prejudicial, but Barney replied, How I vote brother is my business. Sent from Marie's iPad ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
