Morton Stiles to Pearl E. Bolin, Marriage Record

APPLICATION FOR MARRIAGE LICENSE -- MALE

Application is hereby made for a license for the marriage of Morton Stiles, to Pearl E. Bolin upon the following statement of fact relative to said parties:

1. The full christian and surname of the man is : Morton Stiles

2. Color: white

3. Where born: Clay Co. Ind.

4. When born: Nov 5" 1881

5. Present residence: Paragon Ind.

6. Present occupation: Butcher

7. If no occupation... [blank]

8. Is the male contracting party of nearer kin to the female contracting party than second cousin? No.

9. Full christian and surname of father: Jesse L. R. Stiles

10. His color: white

11. His birthplace: Morgan Co.

12. His ocupation: [blank]

13. His residence: deceased

14. Full christian and maiden name of mother: Catharine Mossier

15. Her color: white

16. Her occupation: House Keeper

17. Her birthplace: Morgan Co.

18. Her residence: Morgan Co.

19. Has the male contracting party been an inmate of any county asylum or home for indigent persons within the last five years? No

20. If so, is he now able to support a family and likely to so continue? [blank]

21. Is this his first marriage? Yes

22. If not, how often has he been married? [blank]

23. Has such prior marriage, or marriages, been dissolved? [blank]

24. If so, how? [blank]

25. When? [blank]

26. Is the male contracting party afflicted with epilepsy, tuberculosis, venereal, or any other contagious or transmissible disease? No.

27. Is he an imbecile, feeble-minded, idiotic or insane, or is he under guardianship as a person of unsound mind? No.

Signature of Applicant: Morton Stiles

STATE OF INDIANA, MORGAN COUNTY, ss:

[blank] deposes and says that [blank] has personal knowledge of the facts above stated and that they and each of them are true.

E. M. Bolin

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 28" day of Dec. 1907.

Odin R. Smith, Clerk

Morgan Circuit Court.

APPLICATION FOR MARRIAGE LICENSE -- FEMALE

Application is hereby made for a license for the marriage of Pearl E. Bolin to Morton Stiles upon the following statement of fact relative to said parties:

1. The full christian and surname of the woman is: Pearl E. Bolin

2. Color: White

3. Where born: [blank]

4. When born: Dec 29" 1889

5. Present address: Paragon

6. Present occupation: housekeeper

7. Full christian and surname of father: Emanuel M. Bolin

8. His color: White

9. His birthplace: Monroe Co.

10. His occupation: farmer

11. His residence: Paragon

12. Full christian and maiden name of mother: Americwa Bastans

13. Her color: White

14. Her occupation: Housekeeper

15. Her birthplace: Morgan Co.

16. Her residence: Paragon

17. Has the female contracting party been an inmate of any county asylum or home for indigent persons within the last five years? No.

18. Is this her first marriage? Yes

19. If not, how often has she been married? [blank]

20. Has such prior marriage, or marriages, been dissolved? [blank]

21. If so, how and when? [blank]

22. Is the female contracting party afflicted with epilepsy, tuberculosis, venereal, or any other contagious or transmissible disease? No.

23. Is she an imbecile, feeble-minded, idiotic or insane, or is he under guardianship as a person of unsound mind? No.

Signature of Applicant: Pearl E. Bolin

STATE OF INDIANA, MORGAN COUNTY, ss:

[blank] deposes and says that [blank] has personal knowledge of the facts above stated and that they and each of them are true.

E. M. Bolin

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 28" day of Dec. 1907

Odin R. Smith, Clerk,

Morgan Circuit Court

Morton Stiles

TO

Pearl E. Bolin

BE IT KNOWN, That on the 28" day of Dec. 1907 a Marriage License was duly issued to Morton Stiles and Pearl E. Bolin which License is in the words and figures following, to wit:

STATE OF INDIANA, MORGAN COUNTY, ss:

TO ANY PERSON EMPOWERED BY LAW TO SOLEMNIZE MARRIAGES, GREETING:

You are hereby authorized to join together as Husband and Wife, Morton Stiles and Pearl E. Bolin and of this, together with your Certificate of Marriage, make due return within three months according to the laws of the State of Indiana.

WITNESS, The Clerk of the Morgan Circuit Court, and the Seal thereof, affixed at Martinsville, Indiana, this 28 day of December A.D. 1907

Odin R. Smith

Clerk of the Morgan Circuit Court.

And on the 31" day of December A.D. 1907 the following Certificate was returned and filed in the Clerk's Office of said Court, to wit:

MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE

THIS CERTIFIES, That Morton Stiles of Paragon Ind. and Pearl E. Bolin of Paragon were by me united in Holy Matrimony in [blank] on the 31" day of December A.D. 1907

Rev. George Goss

Source: Morgan County, Indiana, Marriages, pp. 8-9