Sarah Allis' Wedding Portrait

On Thursday, Oct. 18, 1877, Charles and Sarah married at her parents’ house at 610 Jefferson St., near Division St. (now Juneau) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was 24, and it was a few weeks before her 24th birthday. They held a semi-private ceremony without attendants, though Edward and Ernest Allis, brothers of the groom, served as ushers. (“Local Miscellany,” Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Friday, October 19, 1877; pg. 8) Rev. Mr. Nichols of Immanuel Presbyterian Church officiated, and Rev. Thomas Watson, the brother of Mrs. E.P. Allis and the groom’s uncle, gave the couple a blessing. That evening Charles and Sarah headed East for a brief honeymoon.