Sample Marriage Document

Below is a transcription of the Application and Marriage license record and Marriage Certificate of my gg grandmother and her second husband Elihu H COX. First husband is my gg grandfather (Walter R. LITTLE, MD).

Submitted by: Carolyn Leverich Atkinson

From Guthrie, Logan Co, OK MARRIAGE RECORDS, BOOK 4, PAGE 339.

APPLICATION FOR MARRIAGE LICENSE:

Territory of Oklahoma, Logan Co

I, Elihu H COX of Logan Co, Territory of OK, aged 57 years and legally competent to make and take an oath, do solemnly swear that I am acquainted with Mr Elihu H Cox and Mrs Almira LITTLE who are parties for the marriage of whom a LICENSE is hereby applied for. That said parties, and each of them, are of sound contracting mind and unmarried, and not disqualified or incapable under the law of entering into the marriage relation. That said parties are not of the relationship prohibited by law and may lawfully contract and be joined in marriage.

I furthermore solomnly swear that the following schedule, containing the names of the aforesaid parties, their age, color, place of birth, and residence is correct in every particular, to the best of my knowledge, information and belief, to-wit:

NAME OF PARTIES/AGE/COLOR/PLACE OF BIRTH/RESIDENCE

Elihu H Cox-Groom/57/W/Indiana/Crescent PO

Almira Little-Bride/55/W/Illinois/Ingalls PO

 

Elihu H Cox Applicant

Subscribed and sworn to before me, June 19, 1900

JC Foster, Judge

MARRIAGE LICENSE