A Chicago jury decided in the case of Thomas and Mary Grace, that a clergyman was not needed to solemnize a marriage ceremony. The woman claimed that they entered a contract to live as man and wife, and that GRACE afterward introduced her as his wife. The man was killed by a Wisconsin Central train last November, and the woman desires to prove her marriage in order to claim damages from the company.
[The Ava Advertiser, Ava, Jackson County, IL... Friday, October 31, 1890]

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