It now ran on When Emily was married on the grounds of Bellemont in 1911 she was the third generation of Montgomerys to do so. Her husband, Raymond White, continued to work for the Farmer’s Bank in a low paying clerk position, but he embraced it, desperate to learn banking, his father’s business from the bottom up.
Because the family traveled so much by train and received so much pleasure, it seems more hurtful for fate to use a railroad to destroy Frank’s rich home life. One year Marie and the two boys traveled ahead to Miami a week before Frank could leave. Emily remained behind as well so her father would not have to travel alone, and so as to remain with Raymond a while longer. On the way to Miami, Marie, Robert and John were killed in a train accident near Espanola, Florida. The year was 1912. Frank died a year later just a day shy of seeing the birth of his only grandchild, his daughter Emily’s son, Benjamin. Bellemont’s fourth generation.
(The train wreck pictured is near the location occurred just two years prior to the one in which Marie, Robert and John were killed.)
