Rockingham post-dispatch., 1922-10-19

MANY Couples Come To Bennetts-
VILE Prom NSrth Carolina To
Be Marrisd.

England experienced little difficult,
In getting married, either with o.
without the consent of parents O
guardians. But in that year an ac
aboIishing clandcstine marriages
came into force and after that dat
runaway couples were forced t.
seek the hospitality OF comtr,
where it sufficed for them to de
clare their wish to marry in thu
presence OF Witnesses. 1t was nat
ural that they should select the
nearest and most accessible point
| for the consuTnation of the conjugal
iknot and Gretna Green, small vii
llage in Dumfriesshire, Scotland
three-quartcrs of a mile from the
river Sark, which is the dividing
line between England and Scotland
became notorious as the resort oi
Ieloping couples who had failed tc
obtain the consent of parents OF
guardians to their union.
At Gretna Green the ceremony
was usually performed by the black
lsmith hut the toll-keeper, ferryman
or in fact any person might officiate
and the dollhouse, the inn, oi
Gretna Hall was the scene Of many
such weddings.
The romantic traffic Yves practi
cally, though not necG~.s i'ily, put
to an end in 1856, wllS- !, he law re
lquired one Of the cont ding par
tiles 10 reside in SSSi lld three
weeks previous to the g 1T.
To the young peopFs &c coun
ties over the North cks ~ line
BennettsMlle has beolk !. a new
Gretna Green, many a. les COM
ing here in the couh. / year t.
escape the more strinLa., marriage
laws of North Carol:n.
The following is a 1 of mar
riage licenses issued 9, m Septem
ber 2nd to Septemhsa 10Th by Pro
lbate Judge Julian G. SlcLaurin.
Ethel Hasty, Mckinley Hornsby
Rockingham, September 4.
1 Margaret Laurence Warwick, l.
II. Anderson, Hamlet, Sept. 6.
Rebecca Norton, Elisha Quinn
Chic. Sept. 0.
Elizabeth Player, Plat Hatcher
Rockingham, Sept. 8.
II Viola Solomons, Floyd Holmes
Rockingham, Sept. 9.
Dorcas Elaine Rollins, Chape
Hill, r. I. Bennett, WadesborC
Sept. II.
Il Eta Lewis, Dave Maness, Ellerbe
! Sept.,u.
H Lucille Cheatham, June A. Holt
Manly, Sept 10.
II Mizzie Long, Johnnie Russell
Rockingham, Sept. 16.,
H Mona Smith, Bolton Smith, Os
borne, Sept. 16.
Ada Laney,, Arthur Gainey, En-
wistle, Sept. 2s.
Il Edna knight, Cyrus Brown, Pitts
Ooro, Sept. "a.
! Belle Rush, Fred Baucom, Rock
| ingham, Sept. 26.
| Eva Smith, Everett Glass, Ham
let, Sept. 2S.
Ethel w. Campbell, S. S. Cfapl
lSiler City, Sept. 30.
Lola Mae Rascoe, Evander Hair
Osborne, Sept. 80.
Cora Andrews, Marvin Hudson
Entwistle, Sept 80.
Colored
Mary Patterson, George Dixol
Gibson, Sept. A.
Bessie Tyson. Moryen, Oscar Ha,
/ bd, Mt, Gilcad, Sept. 3.
Mary Leola Ingram, Chester T
II ty, Rockingham, Sept. 6.
I May Covington, Maxton, job
airley, Manly, Sept. 6.
Maggie Ingram, Ernest Covingto
Rockingham, Sept. 10.
Norello Little, Nathan Marina
, Rockingham, Sept. 10.
! Odessa Smith, James Hope
! Rockingham, Sept. 10.
} Viola Morrison, Don Morriso
/ Rockingham, Sept. Is
Z Eta McCullum, Bennettsvil
9 Willie Simmons, Gibson, Sept. 10.
8 Mary Low, Aberdeen, John Joh
/ son, Southern Pines, Sept. 16.
Geneva Barrentine, Emery Leal
d Rockingham, Sept. 20.
i Odessa Mckenzie, Carl H. Gown
!, ton, Hamlet, Sept. 70.
Lettie Quick, Noah Adams. G.
il son, Sept. %.
i Rebecca Kelley, ]. w. Posi-
l. Hamlet, Sept. %.
" Bertha Benton, McColl, Chas, n
d Dougald, Johns Station, Sept. "a.
Il Pearl Clark, Jacob Ledbett
Rockingham, Sept. n.
l. Hattie Louise Patterson, w
d Thomas, Gibson, Sept. so.
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