Vi Gets Hitched

After a few years of persistence, Vi Burgan and William C. Sullivan were finally married on December 31, 1936. The ceremony was performed by Bishop Toolen at St. Edward's Catholic Church in West Baltimore.

Brunch was held at the family home, and the young couple left by train to honeymoon in Atlantic City and New York. Vi had her man, handsome and well dressed; he must have reminded her of the father she admired so, and had lost nine years earlier. After their honeymoon, they returned to Homestead to begin a family of their own. Some years earlier, Madison Street had become Montpelier Street, as the annexation of Homestead into Baltimore City had caused the dilemma of two streets with the same name. In proper historical fashion, James Madison's home, Montpelier, made the most sense if a change had to be made, and a renumbering changed the home address to 1443 Montpelier Street.