Thanks for the additional info. Both of my parents were attending the Indiana Teacher’s College, later IUP. My dad was older has he had worked out of high school and then enlisted in the Army during the Korean War. Once he had the GI Bill he was able to afford college. And yes, my mother was pregnant when they took the drive to Winchester. However, dad’s mom was very serious about her Catholicism, so they lied about the date of their civil marriage, to make it nine months before I was born, then had the church wedding at St. John Gualbert’s a few months later. I never knew their actual marriage date until Dad died and I found their marriage license in his papers. Brian Cartwright From: marilyn Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2011 19:34 To: [email protected] ; [email protected] Subject: Out of State Marriages My information came from some of The Blair County Genealogy Ladies about the special trains. I don't know when that passenger train would have ceased. After that they would have to drive. I used to work in Hagerstown, and my office was half a block from the Courthouse, and people were always asking questions about getting married. My mother's sister was a Catholic who went to Maryland, [in the 1930's] and they had to get a paper from their pastors [in their case, Patton and Carrolltown.] Same with my husband's aunt. That was what gave the pastor at St. Peter and Paul's [Cumberland, MD] permission to marry them in a valid Catholic marriage. Supposedly the pastor in MD could not marry them unless they were his parishioners or had permission from their pastor[s]. The local Cambria county priests seemed to me [from records and tales] to have "an arrangement" with that church. I gave the church because I thought some of you might be looking for where your ancestors were married Obits in the Altoona Mirror often give marriage dates and places, and many are from Maryland or Virginia, so it was fairly common. I think that during the Depression and WW II there were money problems and time problems. For those of you from other areas. PA required blood tests which you had to take to the courthouse and then three days minimum before the pair could marry. In MD there were not blood tests and not waiting period. Methodists seemed to go to the Methodist Church in Du Bois. The Catholic and Methodist were the only churches in my hometown and so they were the ones reported in the newspaper. I know people who have married in Maryland or Virginia. Not as common as before since the age is lower. Also, getting married is not as automatic as it used to be if the girl was pregnant. Couples who "ran away" or "eloped" would usually have showers when they returned. Marilyn Kline Washington -----Original Message----- From: Brian L. Cartwright <[email protected]> To: Diann Olsen <[email protected]>; Cambria List <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Oct 11, 2011 4:15 pm Subject: Re: [PACAMBRI] Marry consent Including my parents in 1958...they drove down, on the advice of my mother's aunt who had done the same thing a few years before. My father was 26, my mother 19. Brian Cartwright Johnstown -----Original Message----- From: Diann Olsen Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 10:41 To: Cambria List Subject: Re: [PACAMBRI] Marry consent There must have been a train to Winchester, Va., because I saw a LOT of Cambria marriages there a few years ago when I was at the courthouse there. Diann -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]?] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 10:30 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [PACAMBRI] Marry consent Some went across the border to Virginia where laws were different. A pastor did take the time to have the kids to call home before he would marry the couple in 1960. Dave Rose - - - - - - - - - - Search for more Cambria County information on our webpage: http://www.camgenpa.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message - - - - - - - - - - Search for more Cambria County information on our webpage: http://www.camgenpa.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message