Person:Mary Parks (1)

-- Matie or Mattie Victoria Parks[MCarson.ftw]

-- Matie or Mattie Victoria Parks (nickname) sister of Alla. Named after her

    Aunt (father's sister).

- Maried twice -- Caught in 'big' SanFrancisco Quake in 1906. Matie and her husband were

    working in San Franciso.  Jimmy Sandusky of Sandusky Ohio,
    owned the "Sandusky  Players"  Matie supported him by being the
    wardrobe mistress, in charge of sewing and repairing costum
    for the shows.  They were staying in a San Francisco hotel and   were in bed in the early morning when the quake struck.  The
    floor they were staying on colapsed into the floor below.  They went
    down a whole story with the bed.  They were choking with all t
    dust and plaster; a couple of pieces of fruit, an orange a
    apple rolled by and Jimmy snatched them up.  He and Matie ripped
    them apart and used them to cover their nose and mouth to he
    breathe.  They both escaped without injury.

         told by Ruth Frances Ross Frame 1/2000
         Barbara Ruth Henley Carson has heard versions of
         this story since she was about 5 or 6 years old (1941)
         when she found a box of the Sandusky Player costumes
         in the attic.  She remembers particularly a silver/lavender
         gray costume made of satin:  Long skirted with a small
         train and a separate bodice boned to a V with a sma
         waist and large puggy sleeves.  Was told it was a
         costume for a Queen. 1/2000

    Ruth Ross Frame remembers that she and her sisters were sent
    a large 4 x 5 crate of costumes about 1916 from Matie.  She also
    remembers wearing one of the costumes in a tableau / play wh
    she was in the 8th grade.  It was a long gold plush and white go
    with full puffy sleaves.  A boy named Robert Taylor played
    George Washington and Ruth played Martha. Ruth F. Ross Frame
    1/2000

A storey about Jimmy Sandusky. He grew up in Sandusky Ohio, apparantly the child of wealthy parents (A family that apparantly influenced the name and beginnings of the town. When Jimmy was a child, his parents went on an extensive trip to New York. While the were gone, Jimmy broke his leg and he owed his care to his Mammy, his nurse, who set his leg and cared for him. He was quoted as saying she was his real mother. Some versions

    heard before, but quoted by Ruth Frances Ross Frame 1/2000

1. ↑ MCarson.ftw.

   Date of Import: 12 Aug 2000

2. ↑ MCarson.ftw.

   Date of Import: 12 Aug 2000

3. ↑ MCarson.ftw.

   Date of Import: 12 Aug 2000

4. ↑ MCarson.ftw.

   Date of Import: 12 Aug 2000