Missouri Marriage: Stanton Eugene Cockrum and Virginia Nadine Sledge May 4, 1940

Note: Hand written items in [brackets]

Stanton Eugene Cockrum is the son of Stanton Cockrum and Gusta Boswell.

I do not have any other info. about this couple, and I have no family connection that I am aware of.

Submitted By: Bob Loman

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Written on Document [2265]

MARRIAGE LICENSE

STATE OF MISSOURI, COUNTY OF CAPE GIRARDEAU

THIS LICENSE AUTHORIZES any Judge of a court of Record, or Justice of the Peace, or any Licensed or Ordained Preacher of the Gospel, who is a citizens of the United States, or a resident of and pastor of some Church in this State, to SOLEMNIZE MARRIAGE between [Stanton Eugene Cockrum] of [Sesser] in the County of [Franklin] and the State of [Illinois] who is [over (21)] the age of twenty-one years; and [Virginia Nadine Sledge] of [Bonnie] in the County of [Jefferson] and the State of [Illinois] who is [over (18)] the age of eighteen years.

(SEAL) WITTNESS my hand as Recorder of Deeds, with the seal of office hereto affixed, at my office in Jackson Missouri, This [4] day of [May] 19[40]

By [] Deputy. [Clyde Baugh J. P.]
Recorder of Deeds

STATE OF MISSOURI
SS
County of [CAPE GIRARDEAU]

This is to certify that the undersigned [Minister of the Gospel] did at [JACKSON] in said County, on the [4] day of [May] A.D. 19[40] united in Marriage the above named persons, and I further certify that I am legally qualified under the laws of the State of Missouri, to solemnize Marriages.
[J. C. Montgomery]

Filed for record on the [14] day of [May] A.D. 19[40]. Recorder of Deeds
By [] Deputy.