🔹 Pittsburgh Tones

Pittsburgh was where Sumner Larue Tone (1864-1942) and Emma Blanche Torrence (1868-1925) lived and raised their children.

• Sumner was born in Cincinnati during his father Thomas Jefferson Tone (1830-1903)'s time living there and grew up in Bergen. He seems to have arrived in Pittsburgh following work on railroads in Pennsylvania (as found in The Years of '86.
• Blanche was from nearby Rochester, PA, where the Torrence family farm was located.
• It's not clear how the two would have met.

Sumner and Blanche married on December 28, 1892. My archives include a wedding announcement clipped from a newspaper:

PRETTY HOME WEDDING.

One of Rochester's Fairest Daughters and a Prominent Pittsburger Wedded.

The marriage of Miss E. Blanche Torrence and Mr. S. La Rue Tone, of Pittsburg, was solemnized at the bride's home in Rochester at 7 o'clock last evening.

The wedding was a pretty home affair, it being in accordance with the desire of the bride and her sister, Miss Katie Torrence, that the pleasant event be of the quiet order.

The Rev. A. J. Bonsall, the bride's pastor officiated, the happy ceremony being witnessed by a goodly number of invited guests.

The bride is one of Rochester's fairest daughters and is as amiable and accomplished as she is attractive in appearance. She wore a wedding gown of white crystal silk. The maid of honor was Miss Florence Tone of Bergen, N. Y., and bridesmaids, Miss Blanche Torrence, of Anderson, Ind., and Miss Frances Piper, of Beaver Falls.

The maid of honor was clad in alvender and the bridesmaids in white. Mr. J. Fred Torrence, brother to the bride was best man. The groom was in regulation black.

The wedding supper was served at 8 o'clock and at 10 the bride and groom took an Eastbound train for Washington, D. C. They will spend two weeks visiting in Eastern cities, and on their return, wil reside at the bride's home in Rochester.

The wedding presents were many and costly. The groom is a well known engineer and contracter, prominent in Pittsburg business circles.

The guests were limited to relatives of the bride and groom and personal friends of the family. Among those from a distance were George Rice, of Pottstown, Pa., Mr. Tone, wife and daughter, of Bergen, N.Y., Frank Tone of Niagara Falls, Mrs. A. P. Pendleton and daughter, of Chicago, H. O. Allen and wife, Charles McKee and Miss Annie Campbell, of Pittsburg.