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Friday, June 27, 2014

Economical Wedding, 1900

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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