From: Sherri Hall [ldrbelties@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 9:17 AM To: KY-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [KYF] NEWS: Bernice Williams Denied License, 1921, Bell Co., KS & IA Submitted by Mary Hudson Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY July 21, 1921 Girl Would Marry Her Uncle Ottawa, Kan. -- Bernice Williams, seventeen, was refused a license to marry her uncle, Sheridan Williams, twenty-five. The girl, who say she is the daughter of Williams' half brother, was denied a license on account of her blood relationship and her youth. She says her home is in Wyoming, Iowa. She had been in Leavenworth recently with Williams. ______________________________