From the June 7, 1900, issue of the Watauga Democrat
George Kocher of Exeter and Miss Ettie Baird of Lake town
married themselves yesterday to save the expense of a minister, and will spend
the $5 thus saved in staring housekeeping.
The groom is 58 and the bride is 38 years old. After paying
50 cents for a marriage license and discovering that a minister was an expensive
luxury, they called Thos. Harding, a constable, and Commissioners; Clerk George
Doyle as witnesses, and quietly announced themselves as willing to be married
and then declared that they were married form that moment.
This form of marriage is legal in Pennsylvania.
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