Word: fergusons
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...brother of Andrew, was snubbed as too nouveau riche by the ultra-snobby club on nearby Jekyll Island. So he bought the southern end of Cumberland and built several mansions. One of them, Greyfield, was turned into an inn by some of Carnegie's descendants. Oliver and Mary Jo Ferguson, the husband and wife who operate Greyfield, are old friends of the Kennedys', and John and Carolyn had visited them several times. The rehearsal dinner and reception were held at the inn, a great rectangular frame house surrounded by oaks, and several in the wedding party stayed there. Janet Ferguson...
Clearly, the Fergusons were the key agents on the ground for this covert operation. On July 17, Mary Jo Ferguson wrote a note to the National Park Service requesting a permit to hold a "wedding ceremony" on Cumberland Island. The wedding would be held at the First African Baptist Church, near the northernmost point of the island. In the weeks leading up to that date, the Fergusons discreetly arranged all the supplies and staff for the dinner and the reception. Charlie Taylor, who owns a company on the mainland that provided some of the food, says...
When the time came to get a marriage license, Mary Jo Ferguson was again given the mission. She contacted Martin Gillette, a probate judge near the town of St. Marys on the mainland. Ferguson asked if Gillette could arrange for a marriage license to be issued to someone famous, whose name she didn't mention. Gillette evidently allowed it wouldn't be a problem. About 10 days before the wedding, he spoke to chief probate clerk Shirley Wise about it. "He said there's going to be a marriage that needs to be confidential," Wise said...
...blood-test lady"--Alice Hughes, a lab assistant--and drive to the St. Marys airport. Wise said she found the clandestine nature of the affair a bit frightening. "I'm not a person who takes risks," she said. Arriving at the airport, they met David Sayre, Janet Ferguson's husband, and he took them to a four-seater plane on the runway. They climbed in and were introduced to Carolyn Bessette, a name that didn't mean anything to Wise and Hughes. Wise began asking questions. She finally realized who the couple were when she asked Bessette what name...
SARAH ("FERGIE") FERGUSON The gay divorce proves she can be happy and civil in public with her ex--beat that...