Ottawa County, OK - Double Marriage of Roper - Staten
                                       Merriss - Walker

Submitted by:  Tammie Chada       tchada@windstream.net
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Miami, I. T. January 1902

A Double Wedding

On Sunday the 26, January, 1902 Mr. Frank H. Roper and Miss Nettie
Staten, and Mr. John E. Merriss and Miss Sadie Walker were united
in marriage, Rev. Willis F. Juordan officiating.

The two couples were married in one ceremony, at the front gate
of Mr. G. F. Miller's house.

They were not run away matches.  The young people were romantic and
wished to be married in their buggies on the river bank; but the
minister not wishing to go so far from a comfortable fire so cold a
day, they compromised by sitting in their buggies at the front gate.