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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 412009" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Star, the "p" in Wetumka is left out in some places and included in others. I have seen documents from the state government that have it one way in one doctor and another in the next. Even from the same committee. So it isn't just your ggma. By the time they get to be a great gma they have earned the right to have their spelling considered correct - esp on issues like the strangely spelled name of a town in Oklahoma.</p><p> </p><p>It was actually very common in the "old" days for the family bible to reflect a much earlier wedding date. Sometimes it was done to hide an "early" baby. Other times it happened taht way because the preacher and/or judge was only around every few weeks or months. So if you wanted to get married you did your own ceremony according to how it was done in your area and then when the preacher or judge came around you did it his way to ahve it done legally. It is part of the reason that common law marriages are based on. You did whatever was done in your area and then lived as man and wife. When the preacher came around (AND you could pay him) then you did it in the eyes of the church and the law. </p><p> </p><p>We have quite a few marriages with "early" babies in our family. The women seem to be very fertile - and until my generation this was NEVER discussed. In your grandparents and great grandparents' times you did NOT admit that the child was not conceived in marriage. It was NOT done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 412009, member: 1233"] Star, the "p" in Wetumka is left out in some places and included in others. I have seen documents from the state government that have it one way in one doctor and another in the next. Even from the same committee. So it isn't just your ggma. By the time they get to be a great gma they have earned the right to have their spelling considered correct - esp on issues like the strangely spelled name of a town in Oklahoma. It was actually very common in the "old" days for the family bible to reflect a much earlier wedding date. Sometimes it was done to hide an "early" baby. Other times it happened taht way because the preacher and/or judge was only around every few weeks or months. So if you wanted to get married you did your own ceremony according to how it was done in your area and then when the preacher or judge came around you did it his way to ahve it done legally. It is part of the reason that common law marriages are based on. You did whatever was done in your area and then lived as man and wife. When the preacher came around (AND you could pay him) then you did it in the eyes of the church and the law. We have quite a few marriages with "early" babies in our family. The women seem to be very fertile - and until my generation this was NEVER discussed. In your grandparents and great grandparents' times you did NOT admit that the child was not conceived in marriage. It was NOT done. [/QUOTE]
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