... Lyman Olmstead was married to Sarah Ann Cummings, and this wedding was, so far as now known, the first one occurring in the township. The necessary license was procured of the town clerk, David M. Clark, on the 25th of April, 1837, and the ceremony was performed at the residence of the bride's father, David Cummings, on the present Vanalstine place, by David M. Clark, Esq. (who bore the dual official character of town clerk and justice of the peace), on the 30th day of the same month. The bridegroom was nineteen years old and the bride was fifteen. The party, made up of the families of the bride and groom and a few invited guests, numbered thirty persons, of whom only two are now living. These two are the bride-now Mrs. Gideon Lease, of Bethel-and Solomon Smith, of Gilead. ...
