Peggy Clemens Lauritzen wrote a few minutes ago, "My sister was married
25 JUNE 1960. Just a few years ago, we were going through her belongings
and ran across her marriage certificate. It was clearly dated 25 JULY
1960!"

Mistakes in records certainly occur. Several years ago we got a
telephone call about 12:10 Christmas morning that my wife's mother had
been discovered dead when the staff of the nursing home where she lived
made midnight rounds. The odds are that she died between 11:00 p.m.
rounds and midnight 24 December, but by the time the medical attendant
got there and verified her death it was nearly 1:00 o'clock 25 December,
and that is the date on the death certificate.

Brent Tarter

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