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Show MARRIED AT 100 TO A WOMAN 46 YEARS OLD Just before closing time at the1 county clerk s office last evening a couple lovlngl made their appearance appear-ance and bashfully requested a marriage mar-riage license The tierk ohligingly furnished the necessary blank, but' he was somewhat taken back when the would-be groom stated his ago to be over 100. The blushing bride-to-be gave her age as 46. The couple were Samuel h Green and Kmma Estoria. both of Pocatello, Idaho. When Deuuty Clerk John Bluth 1 questioned him as to the certainty of his age Mr Green replied that he surely ought to know how old be is. but that he might possibly be mistaken mis-taken At any rate he made affidavit that he was over 100 years of age to the best of m knowledge." "My parents told me I was born : April 16, 1813. and that is the record rec-ord of the family bible," he said to the clerk, "and 1 cannot see how j there can be a mistake in the record I I have been an old man a great many years, everybody is acquainted with me. know ing that to be a fact I took out a marriage license In Ogden 30 years ago and I was not very young then " When asked whether the date of his birth might not have been 1843 Mr. Green said that it was quite impossible im-possible for he was considered Lhe "old man" of the company of gold seekers who went to California In "49." He said that he deserted the English navy at the time of the California Cal-ifornia gold excitement and joined the boys in quest of riches At the request of the couple, the marriage knot was tied In the clerk's I office by Elder John V Bluth and the newly-weds left the court house ! saying they would return to Pocatello Pocatel-lo to make their home They said Ihey came away from home to get married as they knew that their friends there would give them a serenade ser-enade they desired to avoid Search of the marriage license files in the clerk's office after the departure of the couple disclosed the fact that Mr Gree n took oni a license in 1888 giving his age at that time as 4'j if in 1888, Mr Green was 4:. he would be only 67 now But It was explained by one of the ladv clerk I Of the office that Mr Green, being young and giddy at that time, would noi care to state that he was 75 years old. The bride then was Annie An-nie Cardell of Ogden, whose age was 28. |
