Submitted by Jan Parsons Armstrong (JArmstr904@aol.com) Thu Sep 30 1999

"This is not a query. This is something I found in an old box and I want to share it with whoever can use it. Ver batim as follows:"

Compliments of the Alexandria Fire Department to [written in] MISS LOUISA KEMP and sisters and they solicit the pleasure of your company at their GRAND BALL to be given at the Exchange Ball Room on Tuesday evening 23 April 1878.

Committee of Arrangements: SAM FELLOWS, Chairman, DAN'L GEHR, R.C. ROGERS, THOS. CRAWLY, BEN WEIL

Invitation Committee: HENRY L. BIOSSAT, Chairman, FRED SHEU, F. BOUILLOTTE, JACOB LEVY

Reception Committee: SOLOMON MAYER, Chairman, J. H. RANSDELL, C. WALKLING, A. WEINBURG

Floor Managers: BEN H. DeSOLA, Chairman, HENRY HEYMAN, J. P. GROGAN, JOHN GRAHAM

A photocopy of this invitation was sent to me 30 years ago a by daughter of LOUISA KEMP. LOUISA was the daughter of JOSHUA KEMP & ELIZA PARSONS.

Hope someone gets something out of this.

I don't have a KEMP line, but I do have a PARSONS line.

Jan Parsons Armstrong