MySource:MMatt/Lewis Goss Marriage Record

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MySource Lewis Goss Marriage Record
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Place Vilonia, Faulkner, Arkansas, United States
El Paso, White, Arkansas, United States
Year range 1904 - 1904
Surname Lewis
Goss
Harshaw
Citation
Lewis Goss Marriage Record.
Repository
Name Faulkner County Clerk's Office
Address Faulkner County Courthouse 801 Locust Street Conway, AR 72034

Description

This is this official record for the marriage of R. D. Goss and Maggie Lewis nee Harshaw which can be found in the Faulkner County Clerk's Office. The marriage took place on the 30th of December, 1903, although the certificate lists the wrong year. This can be deduced from the other years listed on the record.

Marriage Record Text

Marriage Record


"BOND FOR MARRIAGE LICENSE.

THE STATE OF ARKANSAS
COUNTY OF FAULKNER. SS.

Know all Men by These Presents:

That we R. D. Goss as Principal, and A. M. Ledbetter as Surety, are held and firmly bound unto the State of Arkansas, for the use and benefit of the Common School Fund of Faulkner County, in the penal sum of One Hundred Dollars, for the payment of which, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, firmly by these presents.

Signed this 26 day of December 1903

THE CONDITION of the above obligation is such that, whereas, the above bounden R. D. Goss has this day applied to the Clerk of the County Court of Faulkner County for a license authorizing the solemnization of the Rite of Matrimony between the said R. D. Goss and Miss Maggie Lewis

Now, if the said parties applying for said license have a lawful right to the same, and if they shall faithfully carry into effect and comply with the provisions thereof, and shall within sixty days from the date hereof return said license to the office of the Clerk of the County Court of said County, duly executed and officially signed by someone authorized by law to solemnize the Rite of Matrimony, then this obligation shall be void; but otherwise to remain in full force and virtue. Witness our signatures the day above written.


[signed:] R D Goss Prinicpal.
[signed:] A M Ledbetter Surety.


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MARRIAGE AFFIDAVIT

THE STATE OF ARKANSAS
COUNTY OF FAULKNER. SS.

In the Office of the Clerk of the County Court of Said County. R. D. Goss of the County of Faulkner, and State of Arkansas, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is the identical person who has this day applied to me for License of Marriage and that He has arrived at the age of 48 years, and that Mrs Maggie Lewis has arrived at the age of 28 years; that they, the parties for whom said application is made, are now single and unmarried and may lawfully contract and be joined in marriage.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26 day of December A.D. 1903

[signed:] F J Bullion County Clerk.
[signed:] R D Goss

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MARRIAGE LICENSE.

THE STATE OF ARKANSAS
COUNTY OF FAULKNER. SS.

To any Person Authorized by Law to Solemnize Marriage-Greeting:

You are hereby Commanded to Solemnize the Rite and Publish the Banns of Matrimony Between Mr. R D Goss of Vilonia in the County of Faulkner, and State of Arkansas, aged 48 years, and Mrs Maggie Lewis of Elpasso in the County of ["Faulkner" crossed out, handwritten above:] White, and State of Arkansas, aged 28 years, according to law, and do you officially sign and return this license to the parties herein named.

WITNESS my hand and official seal, this 26 day of December A.D. 1903

F J Bullion County Clerk.

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CERTIFICATE OF MARRIAGE.

THE STATES OF ARKANSAS,
COUNTY OF FAULKNER. SS.

I, J W Daniel do hereby certify that on the 30 day of Dec A.D. 1904, I did duly and according to law, as commanded in the foregoing license, solemnize the Rite and publish the Banns of Matrimony between the parties therein named.

WITNESS my hand this 30 day of Dec A.D. 1904 My credentials are recorded in Book 22 Page 24

Recorder's office White County, Ark.

J W Daniel D. D.

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CERTIFICATE OF RECORD

THE STATE OF ARKANSAS,
COUNTY OF FAULKNER. SS.

I F J Bullion, Clerk of the County Court of said County, certify that the above license for and certificate of marriage of R D Goss and Maggie Lewis were, on the 16 day of Jan 1904 filed in my office, and the same are now duly recorded on Page 17 of Book 'J' of Marriage Records.

WITNESS my hand and the seal of said County, this 16 day of Jan A.D. 1904

F J Bullion County Clerk.

By J H Hary D.C."