Brooklyn Daily Standard Union

Image ID: not recorded

Validator (claude-sonnet-5-5, 2026-10-28): consistent, confidence 2/4, tier index.
The newspaper notice, as summarized, gives the same groom name, date, church and bride surname as the claim. The middle name Wagner fits the initial W. Without an image, and with no birth data, this is consistent rather than fully verified.
Matches: Groom George S. Wood matches the claimed name; Marriage date 2 Oct 1888 matches the claim; Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights matches Grace Church Brooklyn, NY; Bride is surnamed Bentley (daughter of Norman S. Bentley), matching Mary W Bentley
Flags: Bride's middle name appears as Wagner, while the claim gives only the initial W. This is not a conflict, since W could stand for Wagner.
Limits: No image is attached, so the transcription cannot be checked against the newspaper.; The citation detail is a researcher's summary, not a verbatim transcription.; The notice gives no birth years, so the 1858 and 1861 dates cannot be checked.; The source is a newspaper notice published two days after the event, not the marriage record itself.; Publication details are blank (n.p., n.d.), though the date is given in the detail.