ALEXANDER COUNTY, NC - VITALS - Marriage, Elton Rufus Campbell to 
				Lillie V. Campbell, 20 Apr 1890
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USA, North Carolina, Alexander County, Marriages, Elton Rufus Campbell and 
Lillie V. Campbell

Transcribed from a photocopy on May 17, 2002 by Carson Turner 
(CoachTurner@Softhome.net)

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State of North Carolina, Alexander County.  Office of the Register of Deeds, 
April 19th, 1890

To any Ordained Minister of any Religious Denomination or any Justice of the 
Peace of said County:

Franklin Campbell having applied to me for a LICENSE for the marriage of Elton 
Campbell of Alexander County, aged 19 years, color white the son of father not 
known and Clarinda Campbell the father now dead, the mother living resident of 
Alexander County aged 13 years, color white, daughter of A.N. Campbell and 
Elizabeth Campbell the father living, the mother living resident of Alexander 
County.

And the written consent of N.A. Campbell the father of the said Lillie V. 
Campbell to the proposed marriage having been filed with me.

And there being no legal impediment to such marriage known to me, you are 
hereby authorized, at any time within one year from the date hereof, to 
celebrate the proposed marriage at any place within the said county.

You are required, within two months after you shall have celebrated such 
marriage, to return this License to me at my office with your signature 
subscribed to the certificate under this License, and with the blanks therein 
filled according to the facts, under penalty of forfeiting two hundred dollars 
to the use of any person who shall sue for the same.

J. L. Gwaltney [s]
Register of Deeds

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State of North Carolina, Alexander County.

I J.P. Stephenson, a Justice of the Peace united in Matrimony Elton Campbell 
and Lilie V. Campbell the parties licensed above, on the 20th day of April, 
1890 at N. A. Campbell in Sugar Loaf Township, in said County, according to 
law.

J.P. Stephenson [s]

*Witnesses present at Marriage:
W. L. Childers of Alexander County
Elizabeth Carson [by her mark] of " [Alexander County]
S.J. -elto- of " [Alexander County]

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Alexander County North Carolina Book 001 Page 14

Transcribers notes:  

Rufus Elton Campbell was the son of Nancy Clarinda Campbell and "father 
unknown" born in 1869 in Alexander County NC.  He was raised by his 
grandparents Squire Bentley Campbell and Vashti Cas Queen Campbell.  Elton was 
19 when he married.

Lillie V. Campbell was the daughter of Noah Alford Campbell and Annie 
Elizabeth Campbell.  Noah was a the brother of Nancy Clarinda Campbell and son 
of Squire Bentley Campbell and Vashti Cas Queen.  Elton and Lillie were 1st 
cousins.  Lillie was 13 when they were married.

Their first child Elizabeth "Dollie" Campbell was born on 24 March 1890.  
Lillie was then about 12 1/2 years old when she became pregnant and she and 
Elton were not married until after Dollie was born.

This is not brought up here to cast dispersions on any of these people but to 
include the analysis for the purpose of understanding.