Curtis & Alta's Wedding
- Aug 3
- 1 min read
Updated: 4 days ago
"There's something important I need to talk to you about when I get home." According to the family, that is the gist of a letter Curtis mailed to Alta Rivers - with nothing but her name and Indianapolis, Indiana on the envelope.
We can only guess that "something important" was about getting married because they wed October 5, 1910 - a week after his 30th birthday.
There is so much we don't know about when and where Curtis and Alta would have met.
We know from the 1910 Census records that in April and May 1910 Alta was living with her sister Mrs. Jacob (Flora) Holwager and their daughters, while Curtis was at Fort Mackenzie in Sheridan, Wyoming. We also know from Curtis' miliary records that he enlisted in the Army in 1904, when he was 24 and Alta Rivers would have been about 18.
Could they have met at the orphanage years prior? Did they work together in a factory? Maybe a chance encounter before he left for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he was stationed before being sent overseas for duty?
No matter the story, I think we can agree that the two were a match meant to be.
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