The State of Missouri Marriage License County Benton
This license authorizes any Judge of a Court of Record or Justice of the Peace or any licensed or ordained preacher of the Gospel, who is a Citizen of the United State, or how is a resident of and a pastor of any church in this state to solemnize Marriage between David M. Bray of Kansas City in the County of Jackson and State of Missouri, who is over the age of twenty one years and Ruth S. Kalbfleisch of Cole Camp in the County of Benton and State of Missouri, who is over the age of twenty one years.
Witness my had as Circuit Clerk and Ex Officio Recorder of Deeds with the Seal of Office hereunto affixed at my Office in Warsaw this 25th day of Sept. 1938
By Walter J. Butler?
State of Missouri. County of Benton S.S.
This is to Certify that the undersigned ordained preacher of the Gospel did at R# 3 Cole Camp in said County, on the 1st. day of October A.D. 1938 unite in Marriage the above name persons and I further Certify that I am legally qualified under the Laws of the State of Missouri to solemnize Marriages.
Walter Schroeder
Source: Missouri State Archives; Missouri Marriage Records
Source: Ancestry.com. Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002