MARRIAGE: Thomas STANLEY to Bridget RATCHFORD, 1880, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ BENNINGTON BUBBLES. THAT ELOPEMENT. Mr. Thomas Stanley and Miss Ratchford, the eloping couple we made mention of in our last letter, have turned up. They were united in the holy bonds of matrimony in Duncansville and have taken up their abode in your city. Now that they have done it may peace, happiness and prosperity be the tide that will carry them down the ocean of life, and may they anchor on the golden shores of heaven. Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, July 24, 1880 1900 Allegheny Township, Blair County census - Thomas Stanley, 39 Bridget Stanley, 41 William B. Stanley, 16 Thomas M. Stanley, 13 Elizabeth Stanley, 8 Matthew M. Stanley, 6 David P. Stanley, 5