Marriage Certificate Information: J. E. Ruby, Cherokee County, Texas Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Lillie Ruby switw@aol.com ************************************************************************ 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. The information in this file is in the public domain, as set forth by the TX State Legislature. However, we respect your right to privacy. If you find your name on this list and want it to be removed, please send a request to the County File Manager listed on the Cherokee County, Texas TOC: http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/cherokee/cherotoc.htm Be sure to include a copy of the line with your data on it, and the URL of this page to the County File Manager listed above. Vol. M page 511 Records of Cherokee Co., Texas MARRIAGE RECORD THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Cherokee To any Regularly Licensed or Ordained Minister of the Gospel, Jewish Rabbi, Judge of the District or County Court, or any Justice of the Peace, in and for said County--GREETING: You are Hereby Authosized to Solemnize the RITE OF MATRIMONY Between Mr. J.E. Ruby and Miss Mattie Stokes and make due return to the Clerk of the County Court of Said County, within sixty days thereafter, certifying your action under this License. WITNESS my official signature and seal of office, at office in Rusk, Texas the 23 day of Dec 1902. signature: L. W. Tittle Clerk County Court Cherokee County. I, E. K Davis, hereby certify that on the 28 Day of Dec 1902 I untied in Marriage J. E. Ruby and Miss Mattie Stokes the parties above named. Witness my hadn this 28th day of Dec 1902. signature: E. K. Davis Returned and filed for record the 29 day of Dec 1902 and recorded the 29 day of Dec 1902 signature: L W. Tittle County Clerk J. E. Ruby was James Elverson Ruby son of James Riley Ruby and Viola Gertrude Dowdle. Mattie Stokes was Matilda Stokes dau. of Zachary Bartholamew Stokes and Martha A. McNeil.