DIOCESE OF MARYLAND
CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY,
Washington, D.C.
This is to Certify that on the Twenty Seventh day of October in the year of Our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Eight at Epiphany Church in the City of Washington D.C.
joined together in
HOLY MATRIMONY
John L. Elliott and
Bessie A. Leachman
according to the Rites of the
Protestant Episcopal Church
in the United States of America, and in Conformity with
the Laws of the District of Columbia.
Arthur S. Phelps
Assistant Minister
[Bessie Leachman was the daughter of John T. Leachman. In 1900 she sued for and won divorce from her husband, John Elliott, on grounds of abandonment. She was awarded $20,000 as alimony and reimbursement of her legal fees. Three children were born of the union: Bettie Lewis Elliot "who will be eleven years of age in January," John Love Elliot (9 years old in 1900), and "Nan Leachman Elliot who was born in Sept. 1896 and died during July 1897." Bessie was given uncontested custody of her two children.]
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