MARRIAGE: William F. KINNEY to Annie P. BIGELOW, 1905, Centre County, PA

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  The first function to take place in the new Lutheran church in 
Tyrone, was a wedding.  Thursday afternoon Rev. F. L. Bergstresser, the 
pastor was busily employed directing the concreting of the church 
basement when a Port Matilda couple, William F. Kinney and Miss Annie 
Pearl Bigelow invited him to leave his task and perform a marriage 
ceremony for them.  Rev. Mr. Bergstresser asked them to accompany him 
to the parsonage for the affair, but the pair conceived the idea that 
they would like to be married in the new church and the pastor readily 
acquiesced, for he didn't want to get too far away from his concrete.  
So, calling upon a couple of workmen as witnesses, Rev. Mr. 
Bergstresser officiated in the first wedding ceremony to take place in 
the new edifice.  The bride and groom were pleased at the novelty of it 
all.  Speaking concretely they had the sand for the occasion, and their 
union was well cemented.  Mr. and Mrs. Kinney took a brief honeymoon 
trip westward.  They will reside at Port Matilda.

The Tyrone Herald, Thursday, August 17, 1905

1910 Worth Township, Centre County census -
Jacob W. Bigelow, 55  
Mary C. Bigelow, 46  
William Bigelow, 21  
Alta Bigelow, 18  
May Bigelow, 14  
Mary Bigelow, 11  
Wilbur Bigelow, 8 
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Pearl Kinney, 23, widow  
Annie Kinney, 3  
Gladys Kinney, 8/12