MARRIAGE: Charles Rhodes BELL to Lettie GILES, 1895, Blair County, PA

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BELL-GILES

  Last evening at 8 o'clock at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Giles, 107 
Fifteenth street, was the scene of a very pretty wedding.  The house was 
beautifully decorated for the occasion with plants and flowers, and as it was a 
white wedding, white roses and white chrysanthemums predominated [sic].  The 
contracting parties were Mr. Charles Rhodes Bell, son of the late Dr. Walter 
Bell, and Miss Lettie Giles, one of Altoona's charming young ladies.  Promptly 
at 8 o'clock the bride and groom, unattended, presented themselves at the 
nuptial altar to the strains of "Bridal Chorus" from Lohengrin, rendered by 
Miss Lulu Yoder, a cousin of the groom.  Rev. J. Ellis Bell, pastor of the 
Eighth Avenue Methodist church, performed the ceremony, which was witnessed by 
thirty couples of relatives and friends.  The bride is a young lady widely 
known throughout the city.  Being possessed of many rare qualities, she is 
fitted to make the home of her husband a happy one.  Mr. Bell is a machinist in 
the employ of the railroad company.  The presents received by the happy couple 
were both numerous and costly.  The groom presented the bride with a beautiful 
piano.  After the ceremony a wedding supper was served by Caterer Johnson.  Mr. 
and Mrs. Bell will take an extended tour through the west and on their return 
will reside with the groom's mother, Mrs. Walter Bell, 1115 Third avenue.

Altoona Mirror, October 3, 1895, page 8