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This looks like the marriage record for Alfred J Beer(e) and Mary Rees(e) who are known to have married in Chicago in 1894.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N76K-73D

An e has been added to both surnames.

Hi gnu, Frank Peers married Mary Rees in 1894 in the USA, but there isn't any trace of a marriage or census record. But if his name wasn't Frank Peers at the time then that could explain why there isn't a record.

Hi Morgan, just read your PM, Beer is a common surname in this part of Kent, which doesn't help. I shared this name change possibility with Terry Norman of the Ammanford website and he referred it to a Plymouth Brethren historian. He dismissed the idea that a Brethren preacher would change his name from Beer because of religious views, and that he would also change his first name as well. Maybe getting the certificates is the only way to solve this but the expense of that wouldn't be justified in the circumstances. I am not related to the Peers, I am just curious!

Frank Peers lived in the Ammanford area roughly between 1905 and 1953, and was a Plymouth Brethren preacher. Does anyone know whether a photograph exists? His son Donald included a photo of his mother Mary Peers in his autobiography Pathway, but not his father. I wonder if a photo was included with Frank's obituary in the local newspaper? I think he died on 14th May 1953, age 83.

Donald wrote in Pathway that his father was born in the Kent village of Ash (where I live) and his grandfather delivered letters and parcels in the countryside around Canterbury. However, I can't find any BMD or census records for Frank or his father in Kent.