Marriage Record: Falconer Giffard & Bertha Root

State of Nebraska,

DOUGLAS COUNTY

Falconer Gifford, being duly sworn, says, that the following named applicants for Marriage License, to wit: The said affiant is of the age of Twenty-one years and upwards, and Bertha M. Root is of the age of Eighteen years and upwards; that neither of said parties is possessed of Negro blood, that neither of said parties has a husband or wife living; that both of said parties are possessed of the powers of reason and common understanding; that they do not stand in the relation to each other of parent and child, grand-parent and grand-child, brother and sister, of half or whole blood, uncle and neice, aunt and nephew; that neither of said parties have obtained a divorce in the State of Nebraska within six months last past, and that there is no legal impediment known to said parties entering into the marriage contract. That to the best of affiant’s knowledge, information and belief, the said Falconer Gifford resides at Omaha is aged 33 years, was born at N.J. his father’s name was Levi J. Gifford his mother’s maiden name was Mary Mory and the said Bertha M. Root resides at Douglas Precinct is aged 21 years, was born at Nebraska her father’s name was Allan Root and her mother’s maiden name was Julia Goodwill and that this affidavit is made for the purpose of obtaining a license for the intermarriage of the said applicants.

F. Gifford

Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 10th

day of August 1891

G. Shield[?]

Da Judge[?]