John, Wellsburg was a marriage capital for a while. Instant marriage, - no waiting. Taxis anxiously await at the train station to whisk you away for the ceremony and celebration afterwards. It was a booming business. Some of my relatives who lived across the river in OH - ventured into WV for marriage and then onto the trains to Pittsburgh and beyond for the honeymoon. Julia >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 07:57:29 -0700 >From: "Merrill Turley" <maturley@cox.net> >To: <WVBROOKE-D@rootsweb.com> > >What possible reasoning would prompt a couple from Blacklick and Homer >City PA to travel Wellsburg WV in December 1923 to be married? Their >marriage certificate shows the witnesses as being a Presbyterian minister >and his wife but doesn't state that the ceremony was performed in a >church. As far as I know, there were no relatives in the area. > >Did Pennsylvania have restrictions that West Virginia did not? > >Any help most appreciated. John