Missouri Marriage: Cleo Jones and Loraine Chapman August 31, 1940 
Note:  Hand written items in [brackets]

I do not have any other info. about this couple, and I have no family  
connection that I am aware of.

Bob Loman    

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Written on Document [3187]

MARRIAGE  LICENSE
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STATE  OF MISSOURI, COUNTY OF CAPE GIRARDEAU

THIS LICENSE AUTHORIZES any Judge of a court of Record, or Justice of the  
Peace, or any Licensed or Ordained Preacher of the Gospel, who is a citizens of  
the United States, or a resident of and pastor of some Church in this State, 
to  SOLEMNIZE MARRIAGE between [Cleo Jones] of [Mt. Vernon] in the County of  
[Jefferson] and the State of [Illinois] who is [over (21)] the age of 
twenty-one  years; and [Loraine Chapman] of [Mt. Vernon] in the County of [Jefferson] 
and  the State of [Illinois] who is [over (19)] the age of  eighteen years.  
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(SEAL)   WITTNESS my hand as Recorder of Deeds, with the seal of office 
hereto  affixed, at my office in Jackson Missouri, This [31] day of [August]  19[40]

By []  Deputy.                                                                
               [Clyde Baugh J.  P.] 
Recorder of Deeds   
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STATE OF  MISSOURI
SS
County of [CAPE GIRARDEAU]

This is to certify that the undersigned  [Baptist  Minister]                  
                did at
[JACKSON] in said County, on the [31] day of [August] A.D. 19[40]  united in 
Marriage the above named persons, and I further certify that I am  legally 
qualified under the laws of the State of Missouri, to solemnize  Marriages.       
[S. H.  Hardy]
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Filed  for record on the [11] day of [September] A.D.  19[40].
[E. W.  Hink]
Recorder of Deeds   
By [] Deputy.