{"id":103202,"date":"2025-06-20T12:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=103202"},"modified":"2025-11-13T06:26:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:26:18","slug":"mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-47-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-47-part-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part 47 (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction:<\/em><\/strong> In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, featuring the Alden Kindred Society family reunion held in California in 1929. Melissa is a genealogist who has a website, americana-archives.com<\/a>, and a Facebook group, New England Family Genealogy and History<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today I continue my series on \u201cMayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who,\u201d featuring the Alden Kindred Society family reunion held in California in 1929.<\/p>\n

In June 1929, 70 descendants of Mayflower<\/em> passengers John Alden and Priscilla Mullins gathered for a family reunion in Echo Park, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Daily Herald<\/em> published a feature photo spread showing four generations of Alden descendants, accompanied by a photo of the Alden Homestead in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and a well-known illustration depicting the romantic meeting of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins as immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow\u2019s 1858 poem, The Courtship of Miles Standish<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The poem tells the story of John Alden asking Priscilla Mullins if she would marry Alden\u2019s shy friend Miles Standish. Mullins responds, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you speak for yourself, John?\u201d and marries Alden instead.<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Daily Herald (Los Angeles, California), 11 June 1929, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This one illustration and five photos show (left to right):<\/p>\n