Musings of a Genealogy-Nut

I have been concentrating on my paternal grandmother for over 10 weeks now.  Each week we (Lifebook 2 on the Heritage Scrap site) concentrate on a different part of our subject's life.  SOme are doing their OWN lifebook, and others doing one particular ancestor with the goal of preserving the details of that person's life.  Along the way we have discovered facts missing we need to find, things we need to verify and astounding discoveries.

For some reason I looked up at the bookshelves in my living room and remembered my father's baby book up there.  Curious, I pulled it down and began REALLY looking at what was in there.  On a page in the back cover was a collection of news articles, most about raising a baby, etc.  BUT...there was a newspaper clipping announcing Grandma and Grandpa's wedding(1895).  Facts I either didn't know or had misinformation.  The clipping must have been glues into the book with mucilage and taped over with an early cellophane tape.   A few words are lost to me.  I am on another search, now, for the original clipping. 

It seems that my grandmother grew up in a different city than I thought.  I still can't locate the family on the 1890 census.  She was born AFTER the 1880 one and married before the 1900 one.  I knew she went to and taught at the Alvordton school but she always referred to Hicksville as her home.  I can assume that after Grandmother, their youngest, was married her parents moved to Hicksville to be near the other daughter, who, being older, was well established.  Grandpa, also, was a Railroad Inspector so they were set to move frequently.  Between the lines...why was there no family attending the wedding?  Grandmother was 17.  Did they object to the match?  I wonder if Grandma wrote the article herself, since it goes on and on about how well established Grandpa was and how well he would be able to care for her...and that they left immediately for Montpelier where he had a house all furnished and waiting for her.  Grandma was a strong-willed person.  It would be very like her to marry in this fashion but I would love to have a few of those questions answered.

Here are the pages to date.  They will be in reverse order since that is the way Blogger wants it.