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Joanna's Veil
When people think about Joanna, the words dainty, delicate,
ethereal, exquisite, and super-cool are among those that come to mind
(please remember that the webmistress was handsomely compensated to
include the previous sentence on this site). That's why Jo plans to
wear an antique family veil that mirrors all the qualities that she
most certainly and without a doubt possesses in spades (see again:
handsome compensation).
The veil dates back to 1837. It was made for Margaret Ann
Morrison (who later went on to found a New York settlement house
called the Helping Hand) for her marriage to William Post. And
here's another bit of arcane family trivia—Margaret Ann Morrison's
grandfather founded the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals and invented the clay pigeon.
The next person known to have worn it was Margaret Morrison
Post's great-granddaughter, Louise Herrick Cook, who was Joanna's
great-grandmother (the mother of Jo's grandfather, David Cook).
Other family members known to have worn the veil include one of
Jo's great-aunts (Anne Cook Murphy, in 1955); Jo's mother (Dana Cook
Grossman, in 1972); two of her mother's cousins (Katherine Murphy
McClintic, in 1992, and Elizabeth Murphy Evans, in 1994); and her
sister (Emily Grossman Reilly, in 2003).
That makes Joanna a seventh-generation wearer of this
171-year-old heirloom. Below are some pictures of previous
veil-wearers.
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