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Oceana County submitted by Jim Kzinowek |
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Oceana County submitted by Jim Kzinowek |
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Certificate of Marriage "Happy they ! the happiest of their kind ! Whom gentle stars unite; Their hearts, their fortune, and their being blend." "How blest the sacred tie that binds In union sweet accordante minds ! How swift the heavenly course they run, Whose hearts, whose faith, whose hopes are one." State of Michigan, Oceana County, I certify, that on the 19th day of April A.D. 1869, at Colfax in the county aforesaid, I Albert C Gowdy joined in Marriage, Albert H Freeman of Beaver in the State of Mich aged 26 years, and Achsah Jewell of Colfax in the State of Mich aged 20 years; that the parties did then and there solemnly declare that they took each other as Husband and Wife, and that there were present as witnesses Phileman (I ?) Gilbert of Leavitt and Betsy Gilbert of Leavitt Dated at Colfax this 19th day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. (Signed) Albert C, Gowdy Justice of the Peace" |