WATAUGA COUNTY, NC - VITALS - Marriage - Milas Keller to Mary Demorious Barlow
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Marriage License and Certificate of Milas Keller and Mary Demorious Barlow
 
BK 0001 PG 057
State of North Carolina,                    Office of Register of Deeds
 
Watauga County.                             Dec. 31, 1874
 
To any Ordained Minister of any Religious Denomination or any Justice of the 
Peace of said County:
 
      Milas Kellar having applied to me for a LICENSE for the Marriage of 
himself of Watauga County, aged 23 years, color white, the son of James W. 
Kellar and ______ Kellar the father now living, the mother dead, resident of 
Caldwell County And Mary Barlow of Watauga County, aged 18 1/2 years, color 
white, daughter of Calvin Barlow and Rittie Barlow the father living the 
mother living, resident of Watauga County.
 
     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 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.
 
					/s/ W.W. Presnell
					Register of Deeds
					Per J.H. Hardin, D.R.
 
State of North Carolina,
 
Watauga County.
 
     I, D B Dougherty J.P., a ______ united in matrimony Millas Keller and 
Mary Barlow the parties licensed above, on the 31st day of Decem., 1874, at 
Boone, Watauga County in North Carolina Township, in said County, according to 
law.  

					/s/ D B Dougherty J.P.
 
WITNESSES PRESENT AT MARRIAGE:  
 
Ellen C. Dougherty   of     Boone N.C.
 
Contributor's Note:
 
The variations of the spelling of the name of Milas Keller are transcribed 
verbatim as same appear in the original marriage record.  His descendants 
spell his name as "Milas Keller."  Mary Barlow's full given name was Mary 
Demorious Barlow.  She was known as Demorious.  Other known variations of the 
spelling of her name are: Demaurice and Demarres.  
 
I am very grateful to my cousin, H. Wayne Dunn, for sharing his information 
about the Keller family with me.  He provided the date and location of the 
marriage of Milas Keller and Mary Demorious Barlow, and I obtained a copy of 
the official record.  Wayne is a great grandson of the Kellers and I am a 
great great niece.  Both Wayne and I are great great grandchildren of Calvin 
and Ritta (Rittie) Barlow, parents of Mary Demorious Barlow.