In our family, several births, deaths and marriages took place in the month of November. In 1888, two teenagers — Robert B. Wilkes and Melissa C. Gray — married in a simple ceremony in Greene County, Missouri. The hard-to-view document includes the signature witness of our Great-Great Grandfather’s father, Peter Wilkes. He gave permission forContinue reading “When Robert B. Wilks and Melissa Gray married on November 29, 1888”