Certificate of marriage, John [H.?] Dunlap and Emma Davis, Delta, Colorado, 16 Aug 1893

A printed certificate of marriage, filled in by hand; the image is dark and some words are uncertain. Seen 11 Oct 2026 as a screenshot of the image in the Ancestry viewer.

“[No.] 174. Certificate of Marriage. I, J. H. Gill, a minister of the Gospel, residing at Delta, in the County of Delta, in the State of Colorado, do certify that in accordance with the authority on me conferred by the above License, I did, on this 16th day of August in the year A.D. 1893, at Delta, in the County of Delta, in the State of Colorado, solemnize the Rites of Matrimony between John [H.?] Dunlap of Delta in the County of Delta of the State of Colorado and Mrs. [?] Emma [?] Davis of Delta of the County of Delta of the State of Colorado, in the presence of Jessie Clifford and Nettie [?] Gill.”

In presence of: Jessie Clifford; Mrs. J. H. Gill. “Witness my hand and seal, at the County aforesaid, this 16th day of August A.D. 1893. J. H. Gill, Officiating Clergyman.” Filed for record 16 August 1893 at 11 [?] 45 o’clock A.M., and recorded in Book 1 of Marriages, page 63; signed by the county clerk, C. D. Johnson [?].

The bride is Emma (Bruner) Clifford Davis, later known as Emma Dunlap: she had married John Lewis Davis in 1881, and the first witness, Jessie Clifford, is her daughter, then seventeen. This is the Dunlap marriage that until now was known only from her use of the name from 1910.