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Wisconsin used to have a statute that required a 1year waiting period, following divorce, before an individual could legally remarry in state.
Individuals who didn’t want to wait could bypass the law, crossing state lines. Not saying that’s the case in this situation. I am not a lawyer, so you may want to research this for deeper understanding. |
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Could it be that the bride's family lived in Iowa, and were not from Wisconsin? Therefore out of respect for the bride's family, the ceremony was held in Wisconsin.
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Good guess but no. She was estranged from her family who were from Madison, WI. For that reason I keep going back to the idea that it was either a quick decision to get married which was easier accomplished in Iowa and/or she didn't want her marriage publicized in the Madison newspaper...
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If the intention was merely to get out of Wisconsin then Rockford IL is closer than Dubuque. So I wonder if Iowa had some statute or dispensation that made marriage quicker or easier.
Or maybe it was just a nice place to get married and spend the honeymoon. Do you have records showing exactly where they got married, by whom, and who the witnesses were? |
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Yes. Ancestry.com sent me a copy of their marriage license which started this whole question since my ladyfriend was under the impression that they'd gotten married in Madison...
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Was it in a church, which suggests some planning, or in an office, which might suggest urgency?
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I can't say for sure except that the bride and groom were married by an Evangelical Lutheran minister which would obviously suggest a church...
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Lots of my family members didn’t even have phones in 1941. What did your friend’s dad do in the war? Where did he enlist?
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He was 4F....
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I did some more digging and found the extract from the Dubuque Telegraph of June 8th, 1941.
So there was a phrase at the time, a "marriage mill", to describe a state or or place that performed many marriages for whatever reason, in this case the need for blood tests. Newspaper clippings, found through Google searches, found a number of Madison couples marrying in Dubuque so it seems that this was not at all unusual. |
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Great job, cmac.....
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Yep. Cmac had the answer.
Randy, when I got married in NC, we were living in Charlottesville. It was a hassle getting an NC license. I had to have the blood test. Worse still, my doctor had to sign a form stating that I was of sound mind. She was reluctant to sign the form. Here, in Ga, folks regularly slip into Alabama to get hitched. There’s not much of an age restriction. And no one asks nosey questions.
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