End of an era conclusion: All that remains are memories

Mary Wakefield Buxton

by Mary Wakefield Buxton – 

URBANNA —

It wasn’t always smooth sailing for Grandfather. The factory burned to the ground in 1925. The news came to F.W. by telegram as he and his two teenage sons, Fred and my father, George, were in Florida on the family yacht, the iron-hulled “Tobermory.”

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