1920-1929: THE TIMELINE---~INTRODUCTION~---timeline---related pages---site navigation
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1920-1929: THE TIMELINE---introduction---~TIMELINE~---related pages---site navigation
1920
- Summer: Eva attends a Summer Singing School in Brookfield, Connecticut, as a student.
- July 1: Will is promoted to lieutenant-colonel.
- Christmas: Mama Margaret and Alma were planning to spend at least some of Christmas vacation in Philadelphia with Eva.
- January 27: Will's and Kathleen's second son and final child is born: Roger.
- Alma buys land for a cottage in Woods Hole.
- September: Fred, Alma, and Eva visit the site of the future Fernbank in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Maybe Mama Margaret went as well?
- May 5: Sibyl Hosking graduates from the nursing school at Hamilton General Hospital in Ontario, Canada
- June: Fred visits his late wife's parents in Florida.
- August-September: Will visits Alma in Massachusetts while the cottage is being built, and also helps her find lycopodia in the South Hadley area.
- September Fred heads from Massachusetts back to Angola for more medical missionary work.
- Christmas in Cincinnati for Will, Kathleen, and the kids.
- May 25: Sibyl Hosking is accepted by the American Mission Board (US) for service in Africa.
- Summer: Eva is not in Woods Hole, but where is she? At the Summer Singing School in Brookfield, Connecticut maybe?
- July: Will is assigned to Atlanta, Georgia. Kathleen and the kids go to Woods Hole for the first full summer at the (as yet unnamed) Fernbank with Mama Margaret and Alma while Will looks for a home for them all in Atlanta.
- Christmas: it looks as though Mama Margaret and Alma spent Christmas in Philadelphia with Eva.
- April: Mama Margaret visits Will and his family in Atlanta.
- Spring: Sibyl Hosking goes via England to Lisbon, Portugal, for Portugese language instruction.
- May: Mama Margaret dies in Cincinnati, Ohio, en route from Atlanta to Canton. I believe all of the Five Stokey Siblings attend the funeral in Canton.
- August: Alma goes to Ontario with Anne Starr on a botanical excursion.
- Christmas: Alma spends Christmas in Philadelphia with Eva.
- January: Alma goes to Washington DC for a meeting of the American council on education.
- April: Alma, Eva, Mabel Watson, and Lily Love spend a few days in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
- Summer: Kathleen and the kids go up to Woods Hole for the summer while Will works in Atlanta. Sibyl Hosking goes from Portugal to Angola (Portuguese West Africa) to be a medical missionary in Chissamba.
- Alma and Eva go to Europe for the summer, including Scotland and Rome.
- December: In Angola, Fred starts taking an active interest in Nurse Sibyl Hosking.
- Christmas: Eva is probably in Philadelphia, with Alma visiting. Not certain. The Atlanta Stokeys go to the Farmers in Savannah, with Will arriving later than the rest.
- Laura apparently suffers some unspecified illness mentioned by Aunt Rebecca Provines Taggart
- May/June: Fred and Sibyl become engaged, and plan a December wedding.
- Summer: Kathleen and the kids go up to Woods Hole for the summer while Will works in Atlanta. Eva is in Woods Hole. Kathleen goes to some Christian Science thing in Boston in August.
- October: Fred and Sibyl hear from the Mission Board that things are complicated. The December wedding is delayed.
- January 13: Alma's friend Anne Starr dies. Alma is the administrator of Anne's estate.
- March 17: Will retires from the army, starting with 5 months of leave.
- May: Fred and Sibyl finally get married, in Angola.
- Alma spends the summer in Woods Hole.
- August: Fred and Sibyl sail from South Africa for England, and, after some time in England, go back to America.
- August 27: Will's leave is finished and he is fully retired.
- Christmas: the Atlanta Stokeys appear to have stayed home in Atlanta.
- Fred starts working at the Westboro Hospital. Or else he got the job in 1928. And he decides not to pursue a missionary possibility in Portuguese East Africa.
- All five of the Five Stokey Siblings are at Fernbank during the summer, meeting Fred's wife Sibyl and her parents. Maggie, Billy, and Kay are there. Roger stays home in Atlanta with Kathleen.
- Before the end of the summer, Alma goes to India for her two-year stint at Women's Christian College in Madras.
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