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Application And Affidavits For Marriage License
Issued Feb. 24, 1926
Charles E. Guest To Orine Atkinson
This paper must be returned to the office of Recorder of Deeds before a license can be issued.
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Application For License To Marry
Affidavit of Male
State of Missouri
County of Scott
I Charles E. Guest
of Sikeston and State of Mo. desiring to procure a license to marry
Orine Adkison of Sikeston and the state of Mo.
do solemnly swear that I am the age of 25 years, and that the said Orine Adkinson
is of the age of__ years and that we are both single and unmarried,
and may lawfully contract and be joined in marriage, and that we are not first cousins.
Act of General Assembly, Certain Marriage Prohibited. All marriages between parents and children, including grandparents and grandchildren of every degree, between brothers and sisters
of the half as well as of the whole blood, and between uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, first cousins, white persons and negroes, are prohibited and declared absolutely void and this prohi-
bition shall apply to illegitimate as well as legitimate children and relatives. (R. S. 1889 Section
6841)
Chas. E. Guest (signed)
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 23 day of Feb. 1926
___________________ Recorder
By Wm. S. Smith, J. P. (Deputy is scratched off)
Affidavit of Female
State of Missouri
County of Scott
I Orine Adkinson do hereby solemnly swear
that I am the person named in the above application for a marriage license and that I am of the age
of ___ years, and that I am single and unmarried and may lawfully contract and be joined in
marriage, and am not first cousin of said Chas. E. Guest.
Orine Adkison
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 23 day of Feb. 1926
_______________Recorder
By Wm. S. Smith, J. P.
Consent of Parent or Guardian to Marriage of a Minor
State of Missouri
County of Scott
I _________________________________ solemnly swear that I am the
_______________ of ______________________________ the person named in the foregoing
application for a marriage license, and do hereby give consent to __________ marriage.
Cora Adkison
Subscribes and sworn to before me this 23 day of Feb. 1926
_______________ Recorder
By Wm. S. Smith, J. P.
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MARRIAGE LICENSE
Issued to
Charles E. Guest
and
Orine Adkinson
on the 24 day of Feb. 1926
_______________________
Filed For Record
on the 27 day of Feb. 1926
In Marriage Record 12 at Page 204
Cecil C. Reed (signed)
Recorder of Deeds
By________ Deputy
Notice to Persons Solemnizing Marriages
If you are not a citizen of the United States (or a resident of and pastor of some church
in this State) besides possessing the other necessary legal qualifications, you cannot solemnize marriages, and would be liable to both fine and imprisonment for so doing. Read Licenses carefully.
Section 7307 (etc...)
Section 7309 (etc...)
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The State Of Missouri Marriage License
County of Scott
This license authorizes any Judge of a Court of Record
or Justice of the Peace or any licensed or ordained preacher of
the Gospel, who is a Citizen of the United States, or who is a
resident of and a pastor of any church in this state to
solemnize Marriage between Charles E. Guest
of Sikeston in the County of Scott and
State of Missouri, who is over the age of twenty one
years and Orine Adkinson of Sikeston
in the County of Scott and State of
Missouri, who is under the age of twenty one years
* Affidavit of Cora Adkinson, Mother of Orine Adkinson,
giving her consent, now on file in this office.
Witness my hand as Recorder of Deeds with the Seal
of Office hereto affixed at my Office in Benton, Mo.
this 24th day of February, 1926.
By___________________ Cecil C. Reed
*Note - If the man or woman in under the age of twenty one with the following The Father giving his name
(or Mother as the case may be, for the said A. B. or C. D. as the case may require had given his or her assent to the said marriage.
STATE OF MISSOURI
County of Scott
This is to Certify that the undersigned
Justice of the Peace did at
Sikeston in said County on the 25 day of
Feb. A.D. 1926 unite in Marriage the above named persons.
and I further Certify that I am legally qualified under the law
of the State of Missouri to Solemnize in Marriages.
Wm. S. Smith, J.P.
