DECATUR COUNTY TN - VITAL - Ernest Bivins and Mabel Gilbert 1939 ******************************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Vicki Bivins ******************************************************************************* MARRIAGE RECORD No. 11 DECATUR COUNTY, TENNESSEE Ernest Bivins and Mable Gilbert _____________________________________________________________________________________ APPLICATION FOR MARRIAGE LICENSE (As Required by Chapter 81, House Bill 696, Acts of 1937) Date of Application Dec. 23", 1939 Guy Butler....., Clerk of the County of Decatur County, Tennessee: ________________________________________________________________________________ NAME Female's Parents, Guardian, or Next of Kin Relation to Female Ernest Bivins...Age 21 ............................................................................... Deceased................. (Applicant) Bath Springs Address................................................................ .................................... Mable Gilbert..Age 21 Elsie Gilbert......................................................... .................................... (To Be Married) Address................................................................ .................................... ________________________________________________________________________________ The Undersigned Ernest Bivins, being duly sworn, makes oath that the statements made in the foregoing application are true, and that he sign(s) and makes oath hereto as and for an application for a marriage license as above set out. Ernest Bivins............................................................. (Signature of Applicant) Logan Western......................................................... (Name) (Relationship) Sworn to and subscribed before me this 23" day of Dec. 1939 Guy Butler..................................................., Clerk. ________________________________________________________________________________ Thus appearing that good cause exists, the three-day period and/or age limit is hereby suspended and the Clerk of the County Court authorized to issue Marriage License to the above-named parties. This................. day of......................, 19........ ............................................................................... ........... County Judge ________________________________________________________________________________ STATE OF TENNESSEE, DECATUR COUNTY. License. To any Regular Minister of the Gospel having the care of souls, Jewish Rabbi, Justice of the Peace of said County, Judge or Chancellor--Greetings: These or either of these are to authorize you, or either of you to solomnize the Rite of Matrimony between Ernest Bivins and Mable Gilbert of your Count, agreeable to the direction of the Act of Assembly in such cases made and provided; Provided, always, that the ceremony be performed in this County; otherwise these shall be null and void, and shall not be accounted any license or authority to you, or either of you for the purpose aforesaid, more than though the same had never been prayed or granted, etc. Given at the Clerk's office of said County, this 23" day of Dec., 1939 Guy Butler................................................. County Court Clerk. .................................................................... Deputy Clerk. ________________________________________________________________________________ Return. I solemnized the Rites of Matrimony between the within named parties on the 23 day of Dec. 1939...............Decatur County, Tennessee. Otto Milam................................................ Title..........Co. Judge................................................... Address..Decaturville............................................... Returned on the 28" day of Dec., 1939 Guy Butler....................................,Clerk.