Hi to all and happy Monday!
Today I am excited to share with you the ORIGINAL OFFICIAL record of Reinert Emerson and Dora Nilson's marriage. This is so special because, previous to this, I had only a modern-typed copy that the kind folks at Meeker County had transcribed and sent to me last month; but it had conflicts with the information we already had.
Today's document I am transcribing is a digitized copy of a page from the microfilmed marriage register book that is a "fill-in the blanks form" that was completed by the county clerk at the time the original document was filed. As I transcribe this, I plan to use bold-italics for all that was handwritten and I'll place my comments in square [ ] brackets.
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| IMAGE: Page 300, "Marriage Record "G," Meeker, Minnesota;" showing the marriage between Reinert I. Emerson and Dora Nelson. [1] |
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300 [stamped]
PIONEER PRESS CO., Printers, Stationers and Blank Book Manufacturers, St. Paul, Minn.
MARRIAGE RECORD "G," MEEKER COUNTY, MINNESOTA
State of Minnesota }
DISTRICT COURT } SS.
FOR THE COUNTY OF MEEKER }
R.I. Emerson
to
Dora Nelson
To Any Person Lawfully Authorized to Solemnize Marriages within said State:
Know Ye, That license is hereby granted to join together, as husband and wife, R.I. Emerson of the County of Kandiyohi and State of Minnesota and Dora Nelson of the County of Meeker and State of Minnesota, being satisfied by the oath of said R.I. Emerson that there is no legal impediment thereto.
Therefore, This shall be your sufficient authority for solemnizing the marriage of said parties and making return thereof as provided by law.
{seal} In testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said District Court, at Litchfield, this 23rd day of July 1898
* H S Angell Clerk. [Hiram S. Angell[2]]
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State of Minnesota, }
COUNTY OF MEEKER } SS.
I Hereby Certify, That on the 23rd day of July in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-Eight at Litchfield in said County, I, the undersigned, a Judge of Probate did join in the holy bonds of matrimony, according to the laws of this State, R.I. Emerson of the County of Kandijohi [sic] and State of Minn and Dora Nelson of the county of Meeker and State of Minn
In Presence of
Miss Lena Emerson }
Mr Christ E Benson } Witnesses.
V H Harris [Virgil H. Harris[2]]
Judge of Probate
{IR Stamp}
{IR Stamp}
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A Copy of my Credentials of Ordination Is recorded in the Clerk's office of the District Court for the County of [blank] in the State of Minnesota.
[blank]
Filed for record this 28th day of September A.D. 1898
H S Angell Clerk
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Sources:
1.) Meeker County, Minnesota, "Marriage Book G; 300, Reinert I. Emerson and Dora Nelson, 1898, recorded license and certification on microfilm; Meeker County Treasurer's Office, Litchfield.
2.) Minnesota Legislature, The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, Compiled for the Legislature of 1901, (St. Paul: printed by The Pioneer Press Co. under supervision of Chas. C. Whitney, Supt. State Printing, 1901) 411; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com ; accessed 5 November 2016).
It is fun to present this copy of the original recorded certificate. Recently I wrote an article about the wedding of Reinert and Dora where I explained a conflict between the Minnesota Official Marriage System index (MOMS) and a certificate transcribed copy of this document dated 3 October, 2016 that I had received from the Meeker County Treasurer clerk's office. You can read about that here.
This document clarifies that conflict. The differences were:
Corrected Error
Reinert I. Emerson ReinertJ. Emmerson
23 July 1898 23 July1897
note: Dora's name was left as NELSON, there were clearly no NILSONs on the document. This was acceptable to me as well as the records for Dora and her entire family, parents and siblings, are a mixture of Nilson and Nelson.
The clerk's office shared with me that they had corrected the MOMS database. This was good news to me as now any researchers that look there will have an easier time finding the right entry. I am pleased for clerk's prompt action to my request.
I also make it a habit to query Google to look for the names of the officials that had signed the document. In this case I found that the names were listed in a book that was printed frequently for State Legislature members. In the case it was the "The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, Compiled for the Legislature of 1901." It listed the Clerk was Hiram S. Angell and the Judge was Victor H. Harris. This also corrected that copy that I was given in early October.
Readers that print out these articles, may want to mark up the 12 October 2016 story "The Emersons : a Wedding and a Family." The corrections may seem minor but there was a number of them included there.
Happy Monday to you all .... Hope you have a good week.
The URL for this post is: http://homefolktales.blogspot.com/2016/11/amanuensis-monday-marriage-record-for.html.
This document clarifies that conflict. The differences were:
Corrected Error
Reinert I. Emerson Reinert
23 July 1898 23 July
note: Dora's name was left as NELSON, there were clearly no NILSONs on the document. This was acceptable to me as well as the records for Dora and her entire family, parents and siblings, are a mixture of Nilson and Nelson.
The clerk's office shared with me that they had corrected the MOMS database. This was good news to me as now any researchers that look there will have an easier time finding the right entry. I am pleased for clerk's prompt action to my request.
I also make it a habit to query Google to look for the names of the officials that had signed the document. In this case I found that the names were listed in a book that was printed frequently for State Legislature members. In the case it was the "The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, Compiled for the Legislature of 1901." It listed the Clerk was Hiram S. Angell and the Judge was Victor H. Harris. This also corrected that copy that I was given in early October.
Readers that print out these articles, may want to mark up the 12 October 2016 story "The Emersons : a Wedding and a Family." The corrections may seem minor but there was a number of them included there.
Happy Monday to you all .... Hope you have a good week.
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