Gossip Friday: The Gift of Trees

From June 1939:

Mrs. Helen Stuart Sends Prize Trees to New Gable Home

Two prize elm trees which will stand on the grounds of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Gable’s new home in Bel-Air are the gift of Mrs. Helen Kimberly Stuart of Neenah, WI to Mr. Gable and and his recent bride, Carole Lombard. Mrs. Stuart, whose aunt is Miss Lombard’s grandmother, is called Aunt Nell by the actress. Jack and James Kimberly of Neenah are also distant relatives of the new Mrs. Gable, as their grandmother was a sister of Mrs. Gable’s grandmother.

The elm trees which Mrs. Stuart sent to the newlyweds are offspring of the tree under which George Washington took command of the army in 1776 at Wellesley. Each tree carries with a certificate of genuineness.