My Heritage sent an e-mail today that I could not resist. I have upgraded to their Omni Plan in order to have a subscription to oldnews.com
And here is the fun information that I found about this marriage. Many years ago I went to Catlettsburg and obtained a copy of the marriage record. That was fun as well. My grandmother was five years older than her husband. So she was old enough to get married on her own. However, Forest had to take a note from his father saying that he gave permission for the marriage. And doggone if that note was not still stapled to the marriage record.
But here is the newspaper account that fills in some more information found on the oldnews site:
The article appeared in the Big Sandy News Nov 12 1915
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