MONTGOMERY COUNTY, NC - MARRIAGES - W.E. Russell Marriage
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W.E. Russell Marriage
State of North Carolina, Montgomery County.
Office of Register of Deeds, June 2, 1874.
To any Ordained Minister of any Religious Denomination or any 
Justice of the Peace of said County:
J.W. Reeves having applied to me for a LICENSE for the 
Marriage of W.E. Russell of Montgomery, aged 27 years, color 
white, the son of James M. Russell and Sarah Russell, the father 
now living, the mother living, resident of Montgomery
And
Rebecca Cranford of Montgomery aged 30 years, color, white, 
daughter of Kindrick Cranford and Charity Cranford the father 
living, the mother living, resident of Montgomery.
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 huadred dollars to the use of any 
person who shall sue for the same.
P.H. Morris, Register of Deeds.
State of North Carolina, Montgomery County.
I, J.W. Reeves, a Justice of the Peace united in matrimony W.E. 
Russell and Rebecca Cranford the parties licensed above, on the 3 
day of June 1874, at J.W. Reeves Residence in Eldorado 
Township, in said County, according to law.
Witnesses Present At Marriage: J.W. Reeves, K. P.
P. Hall
L. T. Sills 
I. D. Reeves (the writing was hard to read for the witnesses.)