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October 7, 1998

Harry and Bess Meet

Harry Truman met Bess Wallace at Sunday School at the First Presbyterian Church in Independence. Harry was 8 years old and Bess was 7. However they didn't start dating until they where almost thirty. It was twenty-seven years after they met that they got married at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Independence, Missouri, on June 28,1919.

View their wedding photo

By Derek , Travis and others
Paxton School, Platte County, Missouri


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The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum is one of twelve Presidential Libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration.

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