Attached are clippings from a book I have in my possession.  The dates appear to 

be 1921-1922.  All are Cass County related.



Susan Norine Stice

<Stice0554@aol.com> 

October 19, 2003



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Willett-Whitsitt Marriage



	Miss Stella Brooke Willett and Mr. Andrew Black Whitsitt were married Tuesday 

morning, November 15, 1921, at 9 o’clock at the home of the bride’s parents, West 

Mechanic Street in Harrisonville.  The ceremony was read by the Rev. J.D. Robins, 

pastor of the Harrisonville Methodist Church.  Only the members of the families of 

the bride and groom, and a few very intimate friends were in attendance.  Immediately 

after the wedding breakfast, following the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Whitsitt left in 

an automobile for a several days’ honeymoon trip, with their destination not announced.  

Their families are expecting their return to this city by the last of the week.  Mr. 

and Mrs. Whitsitt will be at home the coming winter at the groom’s home, in the eastern 

part of town.

	The bride is the younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon John Willett, one of 

the oldest families in the county, her paternal grandfather, John N. Willett, coming 

to Cass County, Missouri, from Tennessee in 1842, and which county, with the exception 

of the several years spent in the Gold Fields of California, during the gold mining 

excitement of the early days, he made his home continuously to the time of his death.  

The groom is the only son and younger child of Judge and Mrs. Andrew A. Whitsitt, who 

have made Harrisonville their home for many years.  Judge Whitsitt has been a resident 

of Cass county, since 1861, when his parents moved from Kentucky to locate at Pleasant Hill.

	The marriage of these young people is the crowning seal, put on a courtship that 

has existed through a period of a great many years, as adjudged by young folks.  To the 

older folks, it does not seem like such a far stretch of time, between the days that 

the groom went “courting” on his sled and in his cart, behind “Joe”, the faithful old 

bird-dog, who was broken to the harness with all the docility of an old work horse.

	About a year ago, Mr. Whitsitt purchased the grocery store of the late S.L. Brous, 

and his successful operation has labeled him as one of the rising young business men of 

Harrisonville.



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