Coale-Hodge wedding announcement, 1917
COALE-HODGE from the New Jersey Courier 12 Oct 1917 An interesting wedding to Toms River people took place Saturday, October 6, when Miss Mary Carroll Hodge, the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. George Woolsey Hodge, was married to Sidney Thompson Coale, son of the late James J. Coale, for years pastor of the Toms River Presbyterian Church. The ceremony was celebrated at half past 3 o'clock, in All Saints' Episcopal Church, Torresdale, Philadelphia. Mrs. Edmund C. Gosling of Bermuda and Mrs. Joseph Phillips, a sister of the bride, acted as matrons of honor. The bridesmaids included Miss Elizabeth Cadwalader Rowland, Miss Katharine Newins Bradford, Miss Mary Arabella Coale, a sister of the bridegroom, and Miss Eleanor b. Austin, Miss Louise Bayard Phillips, a niece of the bride, was the flower girl, and Lenox Prevost Hodge, a nephew was the page. Gustav Werth, of New York, acted as best man, while the ushers included William Speers, John Nevin Sayre, Bayard Green, Thomas Durell, and