Wedding Day by pandorasecho

Wedding Day

Emma Bell Lafferty and Francis Ralbon Slack

Married in Hot Springs, South Dakota in 1890

This is the marriage which severed my Great Grandmother's ties to her birth family until her Father's funeral
It was so hard to pose for pictures then- waiting for the film to be exposed. Everyone ends up looking mad or sad. But- she must have felt he was special and worth it to marry him and be separated from her family! I'm sorry it caused a rift though.
October 9th, 2014  
@olivetreeann her family lived with Sioux tribes during Custers last stand and the revenge massacre at wounded knee that killed Sitting Bull. Then she married a White Man! The rift must have broken her fathers heart too but she became a survivor for sure
October 9th, 2014  
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