STATE OF ILLINOIS, JEFFERSON COUNTY.

The People of the State of Illinois to all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Know ye, that license and permission is hereby given to any person authorized by law to solemnize the rites of Matrimony, to join together as husband and wife, Mr. John T. Kirk and Miss Margarett Powell according to the usual custom and the laws of the State of Illinois; and; for so doing, this shall be his sufficient warrant, the parties being of lawful age Given under my hand at Mt. Vernon, on the 1st day of November A.D. 1850
J. F. Watson Clerk;
State Of Illinois, Jefferson County.
I do here by cyrtify that I solamizd the rites of matrimony betw the too with in namd John T Kirk & Miss Margarett Powel the 3 day of November 1850
M. B. Lynch JP

Register Nov 20, 1850
Mr. J. T. Kirk
and
Miss M. Powell