DELMAR, Del Oct 5 – The engagement of Harry E. Hastings,
a merchant here, and Miss Dollie Dickerson, of Girdletree, Md., has been
announced. The wedding will take place
about October 20.
Above from Philadelphia Inquirer Oct 6, 1912
The couple was married October 9th of 1912
in Salisbury. Dollie was the daughter of
Thomas S. Dickerson and Emma White Dickerson of the Stockton/ Girdletree
area. Dollie had a sister, Sallie C.
Dickerson, who was married to Harry H. Ellis of Delmar. Harry Elmer Hastings (1891 -1918) was the
son of Charles E. and Martha W. Hastings of Delmar. Harry would go to work for the railroad and in 1918 be
one of the many who would die of Spanish influenza. He is buried in St Stephens cemetery. At the time of his death Harry and Dollie had
for children; Harry E. Hastings (1913-1913), Dorothy Elizabeth Hastings (1914-1978),
Clara Hastings (1916- ), and Alice
Madolyn Hastings (1917-1982). Dollie would
leave her children with her parents In Girdletree and go to Baltimore to
work. About 1930 she would remarry to
William Joseph Kern (1889-1967) and they would have Virginia Lee (Peggy) Kern
in 1931. He worked for the Railway Express Agency in Baltimore. Dollie would die in 1967.
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