Marriages of the Week Friday - Smith Announcement has been made of the marriage of Laverne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Smith to Staff Sgt. Clifford Friday, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Friday of Kennewick, Wash. The wedding was performed in the home of the Fridays' on February 20th. Sgt. Friday is stationed at Salina with the army air corps and the newlyweds are at home in Salina. The Hutchinson Record, Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas, Friday, March 10, 1944, page - 4 *** column - 2 Marriage of First Cousins Mr. John P. Twining, and Miss Dora Twining, of Saline county, Kansaas, were married yesterday at the St. James hotel, by Judge Bailey. They came here to be married because there is a law in Kansas prohibiting first cousins from marrying. The marriage of first cousins is forbidden in Arkansas, Dakota, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Washington Territory and Wyoming, and in some of them is declared incestous and void. (The Kansas City Star, Oct. 7, 1886)

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