Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1910 — Couple Married by Rev. G. H. Clarke Tuesday Afternoon. [ARTICLE]
Couple Married by Rev. G. H. Clarke Tuesday Afternoon.
Edward Fawley, a laboring man from Knox, • and Mrs. Mary Louisa Stowers, a widow since Nov. 9th, of Fair Oaks, were married Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock by Rev. G. H. Clarke at his residence on Vanßensselaer street. The groom had been divorced some twelve or thirteen years ago, but his wife had since died and this fact made it possible for the minister to perform the ceremony and not violate a scruple the ministers have against marrying a divorced person. . The groom was in his 42nd year and the bride in her 49th;
