William McClure and Maggie Larimer, Married OTD 150 Years Ago

On October 19, 1876, wedding bells rang in Wabash county, Indiana, for William Madison McClure (1849-1887) and his bride, Margaret Jane Larimer (1859-1913). They were my husband's great-grandparents. Redoing my newspaper research, I found that the weekday wedding was reported in the Goshen Times (Indiana) newspaper with this short item:Mr. Wm M. McClure, late of Wabash, Ind., and Miss Maggie [Margaret] Larimer, of Millersburg, this county [Elkhart], were married at the latter place on Thursday last, Rev. W. H. Ziegler, of this city, officiating.William was 26 years old, and Margaret was 17 (married with a parent's consent) when they were wed, as I could see from the official county documentation of this marriage.The couple had four children from 1877-1882. Sadly, the youngest child was only 5 when William died of typhoid fever at age 37. He was buried barely a week before what would have been his 11th wedding anniversary. Fortunately, he had $3,000 of life insurance to help his family…