Carter Co. OK - Marriage: Morris / Sims USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Submitted by: Ruth Jones ruth.jones37@verizon.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA No. 647 Indian Territory Southern District MARRIAGE LICENSE To any person authorized by law to solemnize marriage Greeting: You are hereby commanded to solemize the rite and publish the bans of matrimony between Mr. Ben K. Morris of Durwood in the Indian Territory, aged 22 years, and Lellia Sims of Durwood in the Indian territory aged 18 years, according to law and do you officially sign and return this license to the parties herein named. Witness my hand and seal, this 13 day of July, A.D. 1898 Signed: C.M. Campbell, Clerk of the United States Court. CERTIFICATE OF MARRIAGE I, W.S. Brightman a M of G do hereby certify that on the 17th day of July, 1898, I did duly and according to law as commanded in the foregoing license, soleminze the rite and publish the bans if matrimony betweeb the parties herein named. Witnessed by my hand this 17th day of July, 1898. W.S. Brightman. M of G Credentials recorded in the office of the Clerk of the United States Court in the Indian Territory. Filed and recorded this 22 of July, 1898. C.M. Campbell, Clerk of the United States Court