STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,                                                  Office Register of Deeds
            Pamlico County.                                                                        Aug 11, 1897

 To any Ordained Minister of any Religious Denomination, or any Justice of the Peace of said County:

            R. L. Hopkins having applied to me for a LICENSE for the marriage of Henry A. Spain of No. 4 Township age 22 years, color white, the son of Joshua Spain and Nancy Spain the father now Dead the mother Dead resident of   ---   and Maranda Henry of No. 4 Township age 18 years color white daughter of L. W. Henry and Mary Henry the father dead, the mother Living resident of No. 4 Township.

                                                                                    Alexander Lee, Register of Deeds.

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
            Pamlico County.

            I, Jos. S. Leary, a Justice of the Peace, united in matrimony Henry A. Spain and Maranda Henry the parties licensed above, on the 18^th day of August 1897, at Mary Henry’s, in No. 4 Township, in said County, according to law.

WITNESSES PRESENT AT MARRIAGE:  J. H. Burbag of Lowland, J. J. Midyette of Lowland, M. E. Hopkins of Lowland

                                                                                    Jos. S. Leary, J.P.

(Part of the William Odell Spain Private Collection held by Janet Orndorff who kindly submitted this marriage license)

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