Invitation to the 1895 wedding of Harriet Earl Colwell and Edmund Gilchrist at the home of Harriet's parents at 4 Byram Street in Eastport, Maine.
Harriet Earl (Colwell) Gilchrist (1870-1956), daughter of Stewart Colwell (1838-1922) and Mary M. (Spencer) Crosby Colwell (1842-1921); Harriet operated a boarding house
Edmund W. Gilchrist (abt 1869-1954), son of David and Mary Gilchrist; Edmund was a painter
Harriet and Edmund had a son Edmund Stewart Gilchrist, a music teacher, who died at the age of 22. He was born 22 July 1896 in Eastport, Maine, and died there on 30 September 1918 of "Broncho Pneumonia", perhaps as a result of the Spanish Flu epidemic.
They had at least one other child, who was stillborn.
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