In a message dated 1/18/2001 9:14:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, phssra@physics.emory.edu writes: << On Thursday, January 18, 2001, Arthur H Laube <zurlauben@mindspring.com> wrote: > No. Sorry. I would suggest you look hard in Adams County for > her family, because by law she was required to be married in the county in > which she lived. That's interesting, I hadn't heard of that law before. Any idea when it was repealed? (Obviously it's no longer on the books :-). Was this just Ohio, or was it common in most states at that time? >> It was still the law in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1939. Bill O'Neil