did your nathaniel wagoner serve in the civil war? because this info pertains to that nathaniel wagoner. and have you serdhed his pension records for spousal info?
this doesnt solve your puzzle, but it is fun if above is "your" nathaniel
www.fultonhistory.com has free newspaper archives. i found one blurb on a nathaniel-and followed it to see if he was "yours" Nathaniel Wagoner of
Westfleld, Pa., spent last week
at tlfo home of his niece, Mrs.
Randall Martin. He left Monday
for Meridian to visit his daughter.—
so search mrs randall martin, you find that she is fred thurbers daughter. he lives in knoxville pa.careful many people of the same name in those newspapers-but in the wrong cities. and yes- think "less structured" if u have no birth cert, no soc sec number, no drivers license, no credit card-your birth date, name, etc can be a lot more fluid. u can be who ever u want. optical search engine sometimes confused by ink blobs, wrinkles, fading, mis -set type etc- search carefully, creatively.
here is one
Corning NY Evening Leader 1921 Feb-Oct 1921 Grayscale - 0026.pdf
...at thw home of his father. Murray Met- calf.—Mrs. Fred Thurber of Knox- ville, Pa., and brother Nathaniel Wagoner, of Westfleld ...
obit of nathaniels niece shows she is his sisters daughter-
Deceased's maiden
name was Lena Caroline Thurber
and she was born May 11, 1881
at Lindley, N. Y., the daughter of
Fred and Alice Wa(gner) thurber (the parenthesis were there in the original-which would have, of course, skewed the search) corning paper dec 19, 1934
Corning NY Evening Leader 1934 Oct-Feb 1935 a Grayscale - 0676.pdf
...they have resided in this place. One son Carl T. Martin; her fath- er Fred Thurber of Cowanesque; one brother, George Thurber of Horseheads; one sister, Mrs. Su- san Morton, of Westfield ...
remember-married women were usually "mrs randall martin" or "mrs r j martin" until abt the 1920's. not mrs lena martin unless a widow.
Corning NY Evening Leader 1953 Grayscale - 0472.pdf
...COWANESQUE. Pa. — Carl T.
Martin, 53, died at the Robert
Packer Hospital in Sayre, Friday
following an illness of one week. The son of Randall J. and Lena Thurber Martin, he was born in Knoxville. January 14. 1900. He ...
then i went to joyce tice wonderful site-
NATHANIEL WAGNER
Nathaniel Wager, aged 81 years, died April 10, at the home of Mr. And Mrs. Sylvester Bell, in Westfield. The funeral was held Wednesday, under the auspices of the Masonic order, of which he was a member. He was also a member of the Baptist church and of the G.A.R. He served four years in the civil war. Rev. Mr. Mathews, of Harrison Valley, officiated; interment at Knoxville. He was a brother of the late Mrs. Fred Thurber, whose funeral was held May 10. (The Agitator: Wellsboro, PA, May 20, 1925)
http://www.joycetice.com/obitcemt/riverobtt.htmInscription:
CO. D 157 NY INF CIVIL WAR (he is in the veterans census 1890)
Burial:
Riverside Cemetery
Knoxville (Tioga County)
Tioga County
Pennsylvania, USA
findagrave
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=wa...;
so marriage record may be with baptist church-there are still lots! of things not online-may need to search film, fiche, libraries etc