Editing Edgar Cayce (section)

===Relationship with Al Layne===

The following year, in April 1902, Cayce authored a public endorsement that attributed his cured voice to the treatment of "Osteopath and Electro-Magnetical Doctor" A.C. Layne.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hopkinsville-kentuckian-april-1902-cure/4533051/ | title=April 1902 Cure by al Layne of Cayce's Voice Problem | newspaper=Hopkinsville Kentuckian | date=8 April 1902 | page=4 }}</ref>

In May 1902, Cayce got a job in a bookshop in [[Bowling Green, Kentucky]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hopkinsville-kentuckian-cayce-accepts-po/28592142/ | title=Cayce Accepts Position at Book Store in Bowling Green, May 1902 | newspaper=Hopkinsville Kentuckian | date=2 May 1902 | page=8 }}</ref>  He returned to Hopkinsville to visit his parents in September.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hopkinsville-kentuckian-hopkinsville-ke/15005161/ | title=Hopkinsville, Kentuckian (Hopkinsville, Kentucky) 1902, September 30, Tuesday – page 8 | newspaper=Hopkinsville Kentuckian | date=30 September 1902 | page=8 }}</ref>  The following January, he returned to the town to attend his sister's wedding.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hopkinsville-kentuckian/121109550/ | title=Article clipped from Hopkinsville Kentuckian | newspaper=Hopkinsville Kentuckian | date=30 January 1903 | page=8 }}</ref>

Cayce and Gertrude Evans married on June 17, 1903, and she moved to Bowling Green.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hopkinsville-kentuckian-marriage-of-cayc/155700152/|title=Private Article Clipping - Newspapers.com™|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  By June 24, papers published stories of Cayce going into a trance to help osteopath A.C. Lane diagnosis a patient who was not physically present.  Cayce denied being a spiritualist, saying he was an active member of the Christian Church.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-journal-the-courier-journal/3756069/ | title=The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) June 24, 1903 Wednesday Page 9 | newspaper=The Courier-Journal | date=24 June 1903 | page=9 }}</ref>  A 1904 article mentioned his refusal to charge for readings.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ohio-county-news-edgar-cayce/37841981/ | title=Edgar Cayce | newspaper=The Ohio County News | date=20 April 1904 | page=1 }}</ref> In 1904, Cayce claimed he had developed the card game [[Pit (game)|Pit]] and sent it to Parker Brothers. <ref>{{cite book | last = Bro | first = Harmon | title = A Seer out of Season | publisher = St. Martin's | location = New York | year = 1997 | isbn = 0-312-95988-5 |page=305}} citing article {{cite news|title=The Pit: Copies of Game Invented by Bowling Green Man Received Here|publisher=Bowling Green Times Journal|year=1904}}</ref>

They had three children: Hugh Lynn Cayce (1907–1982), Milton Porter Cayce (1911–1911), and Edgar Evans Cayce (1918–2013).<ref name="ARE Chronology"/><ref>"Edgar Evans Cayce" ''[[The Virginian-Pilot]]'' (obituaries) February 19, 2013.</ref> Layne revealed the activity [What activity?] to the professionals at the boarding house (one of whom was a magistrate and journalist), and the state medical authorities forced him to close his practice.{{better source needed|date=September 2024}} He left to acquire osteopathic qualifications in Franklin.{{Sfn|Sugrue|2003|pages=137–142}}

Cayce and a relative opened a [[photographic studio]] in Bowling Green.{{Sfn|Sugrue|2003|pages=146–157}}  On December 25, 1906, a fire burned down the Cayce photo studio.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-journal-the-courier-journal/3755541/ | title=The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) December 25, 1906, Tuesday Page 2 | newspaper=The Courier-Journal | date=25 December 1906 | page=2 }}</ref>  His first son was born on March 16, 1907. Later that year, a second fire  burned down his studio.  In January 1908, he authored a query to the newspaper about the phase of the moon at a certain time in 1864.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/nashville-banner/110155388/ | title=Article clipped from Nashville Banner | newspaper=Nashville Banner | date=11 January 1908 | page=18 }}</ref> In 1908, he declared bankruptcy.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hopkinsville-kentuckian-hopkinsville-ken/39264173/ | title=Hopkinsville Kentuckian (Hopkinsville, Kentucky) 14 Mar 1908, Sat Page 4 | newspaper=Hopkinsville Kentuckian | date=14 March 1908 | page=4 }}</ref>