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MARRIES WIDOW OF DECEASED BROTHERLouis Hessman, Aged Sixty-three, Weds Hannah H. Hessman, Fifty-eight.ALL RECORDS ARE BROKEN.FIVE MARRIAGE LICENSES GRANTED BY COUNTY CLERK—ONE GIRL UNDER AGE GETS PERMISSION TO WED.Records were broken at the county clerk’s office yesterday afternoon when five marriage licenses were issued. One man was granted a license to marry the widow of his deceased brother. A girl not of legal age. was given a license upon the request of her mother. A colored young man made affidavit that his father was a negro and his mother a white woman. All these little incidents helped to relieve the clerk of the tedium of asking the worthless questions required hy the new laws of Indiana governing marriages. These laws were adopted at the instigation of the state board of health.Louis Hessman was licensed to marry Hannah H. Hessman, the widow of his deceased brother Charles. Mr. Hessman is sixty-three years of ) j age and his wife, fifty-eight. The two ; were married last evening. Mr. Hess-s man Is a painter residing at 2! North Fifth street. His brother died Feptem-r her 26. 1903.I It was Harry Lindsey, a colored your.g man who stated his father, Lawrence Llndsev was a negro and his(Continued on Page Two.)
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The Richmond Palladium And Sun Telegram
Richmond, Indiana, US
Thu, Aug 13, 1908
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