MARRIAGE: Austin W. KOCH to Cora W. WAYNE, 1893, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _______________________________________________ LOCAL ITEMS IN BRIEF. Miss Cora Wilma Wayne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wayne, will be united in marriage to Austin W. Koch, a young business man of Pittsburg, on Wednesday evening, April 26, 1893, at 6 o'clock, at the home of her parents, 1118 Fourteenth avenue, this city. The young couple will be at home after May 10, at 729 Hill avenue, Wilkinsburg, Pa. Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Saturday Evening, April 15, 1893 KOCH - WAYNE. Mr. Austin W. Koch, of Pittsburg, and Miss Cora Wilma Wayne, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wayne, of this city, were married last evening at 6 o'clock by Rev. Allen Sheldon Woodle, of St. Luke's Episcopal church. The ceremony was performed at the residence of the bride's parents, 1118 Fourteenth avenue. Miss Jeannette Koch, sister of the groom, was maid of honor. The young couple left on the 8:35 train last night and will start to housekeeping at once in their own house, which Mr. Koch has had built and furnished at 729 Hill avenue, Wilkinsburg, Pa., and will be at home to their friends after May 10, 1893. Mr. Koch is the western manager of the Smith Premier Typewriter company and is a pleasant and social business man. The bride is a beautiful young lady and her happy disposition and other graces have made her many friends. The following guests were present from a distance: Captain Alf. Hicks and wife, of Leechburg, Pa. Mr. Hicks is an old army friend of Mr. Wayne's and also a cousin of Congressman J. D. Hicks, who was present with his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse B. Koch, Miss Koch, J. H. Mendenhall, Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Cowie, Miss H. M. Vance, Miss Cora Wehner and Anthony Wayne, of Pittsburg; H. E. Perry of Baltimore, George When of Philadelphia, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Walter, Misses Jean and Bessie Harris and Mrs. Mary Harris, of Johnstown. Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Thursday Evening, April 27, 1893