State of North Carolina
OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS
Duplin County
February 21st 1904
To any Ordained Minister of any Religious Denomination, or any Justice of the Peace of said County: R. L. Sykes having applied to me for a LICENSE for the marriage of Marshall Sullivan of Duplin County North Carolina age 46 years color white the son of Elisha Sullivan and Nancy J. Sullivan. The father Dead The mother Living Resident of Duplin County North Carolina and Millie Bell of Duplin County North Carolina age 28 years color white daughter of Elias Bell and Lutha Bell father Dead the mother Dead resident of _____________ *And the written consent of -----------the parents of of the said ----------- to the proposed marriage having been filed with me, and ther being no legal impediment to such marriage known to me, you are hereby authorized, at any time within one year from the date hereof, to celebrate the proposed marriage at any place within the said County.
You are required, within two months after you shall have celebrated such marriage, to return this License to me, at my office, with your signature subscribed to the certificate under this License, and with blanks therin filled according to the facts, under penalty of forfeiting two hundred dollars to the use of any person who shall sue for the same.
C. S. Carr Register of Deeds
State of North Carolina
Duplin County
I, Lawton Outlaw, a Justice of the Peace united in matrimony Marshall Sullivan and Millie bell the party licensed on the 23rd day of February 1905 at Lutha Bell"s Home in Glisson's township, in said County, according to law.
*WITNESSES PRESENT AT MARRIAGE:
Yancy ?????? of Duplin County
????? Dale of Duplin County
Aldon Smith of Duplin County