Chester County PA Archives News.....Charles Speakman January 10, 1914 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Wanda casella james_casella@verizon.net February 11, 2005, 2:05 pm CCHS Surnmane File Charles Speakman and his Fiancee, Miss Beatrice V. Campbell , both of Coatesville, attempted to allude their friends when they boarded a train on the W.&C. Division of the P.&R.R.,yesterday morning for Wilmington, Del.,from which place they journeyed to Gretna Green, Elkton, Md., and were married, it is said by Rev. John McElmoyle, at the Presbyertian parsonage. Charles Cpeakman is a popular member of the Brandywine Fire Company, and when his associates, a bunch of volunteer firemen, saw them leaving town yesterday they at once suspected they were going to get married. The pair arrived home last evening but at the firehouse Speakman denied that he had gone away to get married. He told of a fatal accident that he saw in Wilmington Delaware, when a man was almost cut in twin on the railroad, but was very firmabout not acknowledging his marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Speakman both reside on Harmony street. The bride is righteen years old, while, the groom, who is employed in Wroth Bros. Mills, is almost of age, "When I get married you`ll all know it," declared young Speakman to the firemen last evening, "and I will live up to my promise and have a setout for the "boys," he added. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb