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- This is their marriage certificate:
"This is to Certify, That it appears from the Records of this office, that on this day, to wit: the Seventh of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy four and the ninety eight of the Independence of the United States of America, (May 7th 1874), was registered a marriage celebrated in the city of New Orleans by Rev. Abel Perche on the 4th day of May 1874 between Louis O. Gelpi age twenty five years, (25 years) a native of Mississippi son of Pablo Gelpi and Rosa E. Viosca and Marie Octavie Couret (aged 22 years) a native of Louisiana daughter of [*] Louis Couret and L*] N[*]. The celebration of the marriage was performed in presence of the witnesses A. J. Forstall [Anatole J. Forstall], [*]."
The License was issued on the 29 day of April 1879 by Hon. John L. Loire[*] . . . Justice of the Peace in presence of the witnesses G. Gelpi and A. F. Forstall
License returned and filed, Book No. 5 Folio 314
Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge, La.; 4 May 1874; v4; p436
Note: [*] The copy was not very good, the names were difficult to decipher.
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1852 - 1876 (24 years)
Language
Abt 1817 - 1880 (~ 63 years)
