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D: Oh no, it wasn't. That's another time I rebelled. It was very upsetting
to my family but Frances' wedding had proved to be a Roman Holiday. Every-
body got to the church because daddy wouldn't consent to not inviting
everyone, and I said that I would not have that happen to me, so I married
at home with a small wedding.
R: You had a mind of your own. You had a small wedding in the home?
D: In the home, and then we came to Gainesville right after the wedding on
our honeymoon. John had engaged a room at the Thomas Hotel and stopped by
to have flowers in it, and so of course they knew that it was a wedding.
R: You must feel very sentimental about the old Thomas Hotel.
D: I do, and especially since we were the only people in it. It had closed on
the first of June and we were married on the second. They had kept it open
just for us, but everybody else had left. We had the whole hotel to ourselves.
There were no meals, we had to go to the Whitehouse for meals.
R: The Whitehouse Hotel, which is just a few blocks away, which had wonderful meals.
Did you just stay there the one night?
D: No, we stayed there two nights. We were exhausted from parties so we decided
to stay. The main thing I remember is swimming in _Springs.
Of course, John had stopped by this campus many times before.
R: He had his eye on this campus.
D: No he didn't. It never occurred to him he was coming here.
R: Was it because he liked to teach at Davidson?
D: No, he was at a little college in South Carolina at this time; it was a
Presbyterian college in Clinton.
R: But that's where you went to live?
D: Both of our daughters were born during the years that we were there.
R: Now, John's parents were Presbyterian?
D: His father was a Presbyterian minister.
R: Any your father was a Baptist minister, so you both were brought up in the
Bible tradition.
D: Yes. We were not so different in our backgrounds, really.
R: And he had already given his oral history to the Florida State Museum so
perhaps we don't really need to go into his ancestry because it's already
been recorded. You went to live in Clinton, South Carolina,
which was a very small place?
D: It was very small. We were there for four years.