Mary Ellum Wilson's photo Album has inspired me to create a Photo Album for Grandpa, Grandma, and their six children and their spouses. I will be posting them for the next seven weekends. I will also endeavor to get more pictures from family members of those individuals with only a few pictures.
Anne Westlin Peabody, Arla Mary Peabody, Helen Perry Peabody, Dorothy Westlin Peabody, the four Peabody daughters. as teenagers and either Girl Scouts or Girl Guides.
This picture was taken circa 1911.
This picture was probably taken before Arla went to the Church of the Ascension in Mount Vernon, New York, where she was playing the part of the Virgin Mary in a Christmas Pageant.
Grandpa wrote in "The Reminiscences of Alfred D. Guion":
"... Arla Peabody was chosen to play the part of the Virgin Mary. She wore a soft, white scarf over her head and carried a doll for the Infant Christ. That night as I watched her holding the child with tender contentment and a placid, dreamy look in her soft brown eyes, something inside of me suddenly exploded! I had read about "love at first sight", but this wasn't first sight. Here was a girl I had known and seen for several years, but apparently, I had not seen her at all. This couldn't be the same girl! Had I been blind? Here was the most enchanting person anywhere in the world. I didn't know what had happened to me. I was in a daze."
Arla Mary (Peabody) Guion and her new husband on their honeymoon in Bermuda, in 1913.
I believe this picture was taken in 1913 when they knew that Arla was expecting their first child, Alfred Peabody Guion, my Dad.
Arla Mary Peabody Guion with her first five children - Dan, Lad, Ced, Dick and Biss
Portrait of Arla Mary (Peabody) Guion
Next weekend, I will be posting Photo Albums of Alfred Peabody Guion, my Dad, and Marian (Irwin) Guion, my Mom.
Tomorrow I will begin posting a week of letters written in 1940. Lad is working in Venezuela and Dan and Ced are in Anchorage, Alaska.
Judy Guion
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