Marriage of Frist Cousins Mrs. 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)

October 2008

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