Sara Buchanan

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Thrown Together

By Candice Buchanan, Greene Connections Archivist William Roy Buchanan and his wife, Sara (Livingood) Buchanan, item no. CAND_AN004_0067, Candice Lynn Buchanan Collection, Greene Connections Archives Project.

Roy Buchanan and Sara Livingood were classmates at Center Township Vocational High School in the early 1930s. During their junior or senior year, the class sold subscriptions to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, earning a trip to Pittsburgh. The day was very eventful, a tour of Heinz factory that included lunch, a visit to a music conservatory, a flower show, sightseeing at the recently constructed Cathedral of Learning at Pittsburgh University, and finally a movie called Mystery of the Wax Museum in which wax figures came to life. Despite the full schedule, Sara always told that the excitement really began on the ride home. The small country school had managed to provide two buses to transport the students between Rogersville and Pittsburgh. On the return trip the bus Roy was on broke down and the displaced students squeezed onto Sara’s bus. Sara consequently rode home sitting on Roy’s lap. According to Sara, they both “kinda liked it!” ( Listen) They graduated together in 1934 and were married in 1938 after Sara graduated from Waynesburg College.

Sources:

Interview with Sara (Livingood) Buchanan, 2003. Greene County, Pennsylvania, Marriage License Docket 25: 228, Buchanan-Livingood, 1938; Office of the Orphans’ Court, Greene County Courthouse, Waynesburg.