Henrietta Graham

 

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, 17 June 1865, page 3

NEWPORT NEWS


MATRIMONIAL-William Harris, colored, applied to Deputy County Court Clerk R J Radin, yesterday, for a license to marry Henrietta Graham, colored.  The license was granted, being the first one ever issued to a colored man in this country, and perhaps State, for such a purpose.

The marriage was duly solemnized by one of our magistrates.

 

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