[cva66snipe]

If anyone has a large family Holy Bible 30 years or older in print there is most likely a page for marriage including the name of husband and wife, witnesses, and officiating clergy. I don't know when the laws change I suspect in the past couple of decades but Family Bible's with recorded marriages, births, deaths etc used to be a legal record accepted by states and feral I mean federal government agencies. I'm in my late 50's and I know several friends who's birth {rural area at home birth unattended by licensed nurse, midwife or physician} was not state recorded but rather listed in the family Bible. And yes it was accepted for military service purposes.

Really I never understood why married military should have been paid more than non married military. Pay them the same the non married need the $1200 extra also. Many help support family such as parents etc.

[ansel12]

Did you see post 185?

[ansel12]

The first financial protection legislation for the wives of our GIs, passed by the federal government, was in 1780, passed by the Continental Congress, the United States Congress expanded that legislation in 1794, 1798, 1802 and so on.