Show 40 MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED HERE IN 1933 BY THE CLERK it is quite interesting to inspect the marring damase e license recon records of any county and this particularly applies to sun san tuan juan in 1913 1933 forty licenses to 1 werl were etab sued issued seventeen residing ln in uraih anil twenty three toj to non residents all from colorado excer ing in one from arizona the data indicative of nho lio sot got married aye age state of residence and from whence the fathers came to the west is given eiven below of f the alie 17 couples thin llin in cutali practically all resi reNi deil dei in thise county nine of the licenses show that one generally sene rally both parties to tle the contrat contract vo ere thirty years of age ae or oer oi er one man mail was under tinder twenty one hev ev enteen women were under tinder twenty the youn youngest est man mail and ami the alie younge woman were nse age IS for each party and ami the oldest couple shows the ki oom to lie 50 art and the bride 22 21 of the men were under the 23 25 year mark it is interesting to t answer the question where did the families come from the records show tile the tollow follow ans as the birth place of the fathers of each Sei seventeen enteen or eighteen eish teen out of the SO fathers were born in this state other places from aich the athers fathers came are new york 1 I sweden 1 germany 1 nealand nn land aland 2 kansas 2 nebraska 6 tennessee I 1 new mexico 1 texas 0 ohio 01 lo 10 2 missouri 6 new jersey 1 3 2 alabama 3 colorado 3 1 kentucky 2 virginia 1 iowa 4 arkansas 4 1 MU heffan 1 california 1 south carolina 2 idaho 1 pennsylvania 1 indianu 1 la 1 two 0 are not noted it willlie willbe seen that the origination of tile the names came front from a we area of the country and only three from froin a foreign torell country utah is first ond texas Ne nebraska braNka and missouri are even with six each san juan county likely does not license halt half of the youns young people of the county hany aside front from the large iare number who are married in the L 1 I S temples get their licenses elsewhere leaving tor for the trip as one or for the others families or other ties and influences happen to decide it likely more should regard their own county as aos the place I 1 the license should ile be secured especially where both borth parties may conveniently leniently come hero here for it indicates that tills this county has not been keeping up lip to standard nite tor for man lases performed perhaps this due to hard times as the national la is very verv dilli that way |