Brookville Democrat March 15, 1923
Former Fairfield girl
a Grandmother at 36
The following from the Los Angeles Evening Herald of March 3, will be of interest to many Fairfield and Brookville friends of Mrs. Gertrude Masters Buckley:
Like mother like son.
At 16, Mrs. Gertrude S. Buckley, 36, now living at 2704 Hyde Park Blvd., Hyde Park, made a Gretna Green marriage.
On the morning of March 1, Mrs. Buckley, who scarcely looks old enough to be a mother, became a grandmother, probably the youngest one in Southern California.
In addition to having a grandmother who, all but age, is the satisfying old fashioned kind, Baby James Melvin Buckley, temporarily residing in the Inglewood Maternity Hospial, has black hair, dark blue eyes, nearly eight pounds of weight and a whole flock of doting great-grandparents, both here and abroad.
Notes: This story is pretty clunky, but some bits.
Hyde Park is a suburb of Los Angeles. I assume London is in California.
The reference to Gretna Green is based on a legendary town in Scotland, where young people defied the national law and married before they where 21 years old. Essentially the Scots ignored the law and let people elope and Gretna Green was the choice spot for them to be wed.
Gretna Green remains one of the most popular places for weddings and thousands of couples from all around the world flock to this Scottish village to be married each year.
Gertrude Masters Buckley was the daughter of Mary Gertrude Harris Masters, who died in 1924. Melvin Buckley was born in 1906. His bride was 20 at the time.
Names in this story don't necessarily jibe with the obits. No idea how Fairfielders ended up in southern California in 1923.
Gertrude Masters Buckley is also referred to as Gertrude F. Masters Lavigne.
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