Name: Barbara Gebott and Thomas Elms marry in Ludington, 1968
Start: 1968-12-28
End: 1968-12-28
Location: Ludington

Locator map: Ludington highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago — Took place at LudingtonLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.

Event

Date: 1968-12-28
Kind: Marriage
Where: Ludington
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: demographyreligioncommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

Barbara Anne Gebott and Thomas Lee Elms married at St. Simon’s Church in Ludington on December 28, 1968. The January 1969 Beaver Beacon reported the American Legion Hall reception and named several island-connected attendees.

Evidence and limits

This is a newspaper wedding notice. It does not provide a civil marriage record or complete family history.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, January 1969, “Weddings.”
Reports Barbara Anne Gebott and Thomas Lee Elms marrying December 28 at St. Simon's Church in Ludington, the American Legion Hall reception, and island-connected attendees; it does not provide a civil marriage record or complete family history.
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Beaver Beacon, January 1969, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held six-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published wedding notice.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Barbara Gebott and Thomas Elms marry in Ludington, 1968”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/marriage-of-barbara-gebott-and-thomas-elms-1968/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1969, “Weddings.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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