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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks (2020) – Week 25: Unexpected—My Grandparents Marriage License Location

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This is my third year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails into the Past. I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. Tom & Pansy - 1930s My grandfather, Tom J. Johnston, Jr. was from Gustine in Comanche County, Texas. He met my grandmother, Pansy Louise Lancaster in her hometown of Stephenville in Erath County, Texas. My mother, Lela Nell, was born in Stephenville in 1934. So, when were my grandparents married? In my early days of doing genealogy, I never got the marriage date for my grandparents. I had their birth dates and places, but not their marriage. They didn’t seem to celebrate their anniversary, at least not publicly, so I didn’t know it by that way either. My sisters speculated that perhaps they had to get married, due to the upcoming birth of their child, Lela Nell. Perhaps that was why they di...