Gold Rush Era Letters

This Certifies [centered] That Mr. David S. Emerson and Miss Zelenda D. Henry were join-ed in marriage, by me, in the City of Sacramento, Cal., on Wed-nesday, the Fourth day of Novem-ber, in the year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Seven.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my sign-manual.

J. A. Benton. Pastor of the First Church of Christ in Sacramento.