Marriage applications completed by the bride and groom contain the names, ages, places of birth, current residences, occupation of groom, if either party had been married before and the results of that union, signatures of applicants, if African-American, and degree of kinship, if any. Parental consent forms, filed with marriage applications, were completed by parent or guardian of under-age applicants and contain the name of parent or guardian, place of current residence, residence of child or ward, and signature of parent or guardian. Files may contain both an application and consent form or forms, an application, or a consent form or forms.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by year and then by application number within that year. Box 2 has additional files for 1895 that were not able to be included in Box 1.
"Mountville Pa. Oct. 13, 1919 My Dear Brother and Sisters. Today Abraham Keagy was hear fro dinner and he said Ida s man ? is very poorly he had a stroke last thursday and the doctor said he might live a day or so but his time is up Keagys daughter is there and Ida has enough to do to tend to him we have no other news I am busy and will write more soon Your Brother Aaron"
