Marriage Certificate of Burt Simer and Emma Elder
Lemhi County, State of Idaho
Know all men by this certificate that any regularly ordained minister of the Gospel, authorized by the rites and usages of the church or denomiation of Christians, Hebrews, or religious body of which he may be a member, or any Judge or Justice of the Peace or competent office to whom this may come, he not knowing of any lawful impediment thereto, is hereby authorized and empowered to solemnize the rites of matrimony between Burton W. Simer of Salmon of the County of Lemhi, State of Idaho and Emma O. Elder, of Salmon of the County of Lemhi, State of Idaho, and to certify the same to said parties, or either of them, under his hand and seal, in his ministerial or official capacity, and thereupon he is required to return to his certificate in form following, as hereto annexed.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at Salmon, Idaho this 7th day of March, A.D. 1908.
W.C. Smith Recorder
I, Alexander Waite, a Minister of the Pres Church in the U.S.A. residing at Salmon, in the county of Lemhi, in the State of Idaho, do certify that, in accordance with the authority on me conferred by the above license, I did on this 7th day of March, in the year A.D. 1908, at Salmon, in the county of Lemhi, in the State of Idaho, solemnize the rites of matrimony between Burton W. Simer, of Salmon, in the county of Lemhi, or the State of Idaho, and Emma O. Elder, of Salmon of the county of Lemhi, of the State of Idaho.
Witness my hand and seal at the county aforesaid, this 7th day of March, A.D. 1908 in the presence of Mrs. Catherine L. Tingley and Francis M. Tingley.
Alex Waite
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