We stopped in two towns in Minnesota where my ancestors lived. My great, great, great grandparents left the Cortland, NY area and moved west to Blue Earth, Minnesota sometime in the 1850s. A few of their children moved with them, but my great, great grandmother, Esther, who was already married to Rev. Rodney Rose, stayed behind. Rodney was a minister in the Wyoming Conference (NY and PA) so they lived around Candor and northern PA, moving every couple of years. They had three children before Esther died.
Their daughter, Anna, my great-grandmother, became a teacher and moved to Minnesota to be near her brother, Samuel, who had moved out to Minnesota near his grandparents and bought a farm. Anna's "beau," O.J. Ward also just "happened" to be in Minnesota working as a logger. They decided to get married, and were married in Worthington, Minnesota. They lived there about a year later before they had to return to Candor because O.J.'s father was sick, and O.J. needed to take over the family logging business.
Worthington is 70 miles from Blue Earth, so I'm not sure exactly why they got married there unless that is where Samuel lived or where O.J. worked. I would like to know more information about which of them went out to Minnesota first, where exactly they lived, etc., but sadly there is no one left who would know this. I searched for years and years before I finally found out who Anna's grandparents were, and the fact that they had moved to Minnesota.