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I have some info. The web site below:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wishawan/marriages.html
Leads to newspaper accounts of marriages in Shawano Co., Wisconsin, and reports the marriage of Carrie and W. H. Riley on July 14, 1882. However, I got the microfilm of Shawano Co. marriage records from the Family History Center, and found that the marriage actually occurred on July 9, 1882. The groom's full name is William Henry Riley (I don't know where the James came from). His residence is listed as Freeland, Colorado, which was a mining town (now a ghost town), and he was born in Pennsylvania. I have not been able to track down a birth record yet. William's father was also named William Henry Riley, and his mother was Catharine Van Holm.
I am trying to track Carrie's movement between her parents' deaths and her marriage. She is in the 1860 Wisconsin census (Winnebago Co.), living with her parents. In 1870, she was in Pennsylvania with her grandparents, and in 1880, she was living in Kingman Co., Kansas with her uncle, Robert Moscrip and his family (I wonder if she met William Riley there, but I haven't found a record of him in the vicinity yet).
As to William Moscrip - the man has been very hard to track. I don't know where the Scotland story came from. According to the 1860 Federal Census of Winnebago, Wisconsin, he was 30 years old, a wagon maker, and born in New York. I have found some pockets of Moscrips in New York in the early 1830s, but have not been able to verify which William Moscrip is which.
I also found Samuel W. Porter's (the father of Clarissa) death notice in the Shawano GenWeb project. He died in Belle Plaine. His birth and death dates are given as 11 May 1810 and 11 May 1895 and was survived by 'an aged wife', sons A.K., Joseph, Ab., and William Porter, and a daughter, Mrs. J. L. Spencer. His funeral was 'largely attended' as he was held in 'high esteem.' In the same web page, I also found the death notice of William H. Porter, who died in August of 1901. His wife had died about a year earlier, and he was survived by three sons.
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