First up is the Marriage License of Charles Scheel and Margaret Platts in 1927. Double-click on the picture to embiggen. I think I have some pictures of the happy couple on their wedding day, and I'll try to post them.
New York State Department of Health
Division of Vital Statistics
Marriage License
Place of Registry: State of New York, County of Niagara, City of Niagara Falls
Registered No. 11778
Know all Men by this Certificate, that any person authorized by law to perform marriage ceremonies within the State of New York to whom this may come, he, not knowing any lawful impediment thereto, is hereby authorized and empowered to solemnize the rites of matrimony between
Charles E. Scheel
of Niagara Falls in the county of Niagara and the state of New York
and
Margaret D. Platts
of Niagara Falls in the county of Niagara and the state of New York
and to certify the same to be said parties or either of them under his hand and seal in his ministerial or official capacity and thereupon he is required to return his certificate in the form hereto annexed. The statements endorsed hereon or annexed hereto, by me subscribed, contain a full and true abstract of all the facts concerning such parties disclosed by their affidavits or verified statements presented to me upon the application for this license.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said City of Niagara Falls this Twenty-ninth day of September nineteen hundred and Twenty-seven.
[Signature]
Clerk
The following is a full and true abstract of all the facts disclosed by the above-named applicants in their verified statements presented to me upon their applications for the above license:
From the Groom: From the Bride:
Full Name: Charles E. Scheel Margaret D. Platts
Color: white white
Place of
Residence: 2222-21st St., Niagara Falls, NY 1728 Center Ave., Niagara Falls, NY
Age: 28 25
Occupation: Shipper Clerk
Place of
Birth: Buffalo, NY Lockport, NY
Name of
Father: Edward C. Scheel Albert John Platts
Country of
Birth: Buffalo, NY Lockport, NY
Maiden
name of
mother: Mary Culver Margaret McCulligan
Country of
Birth: Buffalo, NY Lockport, NY
Number
of marriage: First First
