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Footprints vol. 28
(C. Avis Catalog entry #657)
From the Wise County Messenger newspaper, Wise County, Texas
p. 186
17 Sep 1887. "--- On Sunday evening Sep. 4th, our ex-judge, Sam Hodges of Montague, eloped with Miss Belle Avis, the step-daughter of a wealthy real estate owner of that city, and they were married about midnight in Henrietta by the Rev. I. V. Kimbrough."