Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-01 | Page 17 | 395 Couples Married in Year in U. S. Gretna Green

Couples Marr Married ed in inear Year ear in US Gret Green GreenE E ROCKPORT Ind UP Only UP-Only r during periods of high water on the Ohio river does the principal business business busi buss ness of Rockport Indiana's Gretna I Green show any of depression depression depres depres- sl sion n Although this Spencer county eat boasts only p population court records from October 1926 until November of this year show that 39 couples from Indiana Indiana- and andr j r Kentucky I were married here During the high w water ter of las last J January nuary however business was so 1 dull that Justice J. J M M. Kessner L marryIng squire and the Rev William WIIlIam Heurin the marrying parson not a aL L single ceremony wn was pei pert formed Lovers Lavers to t the e number of ot crossed the river In ron rowboats boats or or oron on fc the Owensboro terry ferry to have the ceremony performed last Int year Many of these thesa young people records record show earn cam from from remote II counties of Kentucky Some ran rant t I away f from i om irate parents some came me melor for lor the novelty an ana others because JK r marriages aT ara said to be ber f r happy an and lasting one ones Hoosiers from Burrou BUt counties counties counties coun- coun ties also feel the spell of this Grett Gret Gret- t t. t na Jia Green and hun hundreds of c couples have vo traveled from the larger cities of t the state to have their ceremonies performed here