My grandma dated a Hollywood star
Mary Matilda Gillenwaters lived with her sisters and mother on 7th Street, Jeffersonville, Indiana, near the Jeffersonville Quartermaster Depot. During WW I, Grandma’s family sewed shirts for it. The girls placed a slip of paper with their name and address in each shirt pocket. The shirts went across the Ohio River to Camp Zachary Taylor, just south of Louisville.
Private Jack Bailey romanced her. What happened, we may never know, but he moved a few miles north to Seymour, Indiana, then to Hollywood where he hosted Queen for a Day for many years, as well as acting (I saw him on TV, only learned a few years ago about him).
Grandma married Corporal Orval Pait, my grandpa. All the girls married soldiers. [Grandma, her house behind her]
C. T. Suddeth 
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