In a message dated 4/2/02 7:30:26 AM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > I have a really dumb question. I have spent many summers and even more > Holidays in Marianna and Jackson Co with my family. I have been trying to > understand something... > > why did people, say a generation or so ago, live in Jackson Co, and yet are > > married in Decauter Co Ga, or Donaldsonville? ( I think it may be spelled > Donalson or Donalsonville???) Ga? > > Any ideas why? > Maybe they were under the legal age and needed parents permission to get married in FL. Example: I lived in Bay Co, FL and wanted to get married when I was 19. I needed my parents permission because the legal age to marry in FL was 21. My mother would not give her permission. Even though I had been living on my own and working and supporting myself for two years, I still needed permission. So I went to Geneva, AL and got married. I know others who have done the same thing for the same reason. Liz Gerlits Palm Bay, FL