Transcribed Marriage License

TO ANY ONE LEGALLY AUTHORIZED TO SOLEMNIZE MARRIAGES:

               This is to authorize you to solemnize the RITE OF MATRIMONY between
       A. D. Thedford       and       Ethel Green
of your County, agreeably to an Act of the General Assembly in such cases made and provided: Provided, that there is no lawful cause to obstruct the Marriage for which this License is desired; otherwise these shall be null and void, and shall not be accounted any license or authority for you or either of you for the purposes aforesaid, more than if the same had never been prayed or granted.
       Given under my hand at the Clerk's Office in said County this 5 day of Mar, 1921.
                            J R Menzies, Clerk
By J. W. Maxey

                            STATE OF TENNESSEE, DYER COUNTY
Know all Men by these Presents:
That we, A. D. Thedford and ___________
of County of Dyer and State of Tennesse, are held and firmly bound unto the State of Tennessee, in the sum of Twelve Hundred and Fifty Dollars, to which payment , well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, and each and every one of us, jointly and severally, by these presents.               Witness our hands and seals this 5 day of Mar, 1921.

                                                              A. D. Thedford (Seal)
                                                              T. J. Reynolds (Seal) (The signature of this person is a best guess.)

The Condition of the above Obligation is such, That whereas, the above bounden A. D. Thedford has this day prayed and obtained a License to marry Ethel Green, Now if there is no lawful cause to obstruct said marriage and for which license is desired, then this obligation to be void; otherwise, to remain in full force and virtue in law.
                     Attest:        J R Menzies, Clerk
By: J. W. Maxey, D. C.

                            STATE OF TENNESSEE, DYER COUNTY.
CERTIFICATE.
                     I solemnized the RITE OF MATRIMONY between the within named parties on the 5 day of March, 1921              Rev. F. T. Woolverton

              Returned on the 8 day of March, 1921.

By_____________________, D.C.               J.R. Menzies, Clerk

Note: A. D. Thedford was the son of Bill Thedford and Unknown Pope. Ethel Green was first married to Granger Green and is the daughter of George Schoolfield and Jennie Brimm. A. D. and Ethel had one child, Alvis.