Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts & Archives
User information
Biographical sketch
Scope and Content note
Cataloguing information
Processed by
Charles Latham
15 March 1995
12 February 1996
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 2 items
COLLECTION DATES: 1994-1995
PROVENANCE: Mrs. Richard Cochran, Indianapolis, IN, 24 February 1995; Charles Latham, Jr., Indianapolis, IN, 23 January 1996
RESTRICTIONS: None
REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society
ALTERNATE FORMATS: None
OTHER FINDING AIDS: None
RELATED HOLDINGS: OMB 24, Booth Tarkington - Susanah Jameson
ACCESSION NUMBER: 95.0287, 96.0241
Susanah Jameson Mayberry (b. ca 1920) was born in Indianapolis, the daughter of John T. and Florence Jameson and the grandniece of author Booth Tarkington. She married Francis Mayberry in 1944. In 1983 she edited the letters she had received in college from Booth Tarkington (in OMB 24) into a book, My Amiable Uncle.
This collection contains two items, copies of accounts written by Susanah Mayberry about incidents of her life during World War II. The first account, "Why I Can't Go To The Union Station," was written in 1994 about the author's wartime marriage". It includes the festivities after the wedding, including Mrs. Tarkington's spiking the champagne punch with two bottles of brandy to make it more "peppy," a raucous sing-along by the whole crowd in the waiting room at the Union Station, and a description of the joys of sleeping two to an upper berth.
The second account, entitled "Sound Off," was printed in December 1995. It describes the author's experiences as a war bride, largely on the home front as a worker at Electronic Laboratories in Indianapolis.
MAIN ENTRY: Mayberry, Susanah
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Mayberry, Susanah--Marriage
Mayberry, Francis--Marriage
Union Station (Indianapolis, Ind.)
War brides--Indiana--Indianapolis
World War, 1939-1945--War work--Indiana--Indianapolis
Electronic industries--Indiana--Indianapolis
END