Life History

Notes

• Texas, Select County Marriage Records, 1837-2015
  Alyce M Randolph, Age 18, 2001 Freeman St, City (Houston)
  Eldred J Jenks, Age 22, Ellington Field, Texas
  Marriage 4 May 1919 Harris County, Texas, USA
  Marriage Cover Record
  
  There were several documents related to their marriage.
  
  First a marriage license dated 6 February 1919, which was never signed by any solemnizing officer for recording.
  
  Texas, Select County Marriage Records, 1837-2015
  Alyce M Randolph
  Eldred J Jenks, of Harris County
  License issued 6 February 1919 Harris County, Texas, USA
  The recording return to be filled out by the solemnizing officer is not filled in.
  Marriage License #41156, Harris County, Marriage Records (Book # Unknown), page 431
  
  Then another identical license dated 4 May 1919, with a matching recording instrument of the same date.  Both these documents had the record book and page information.
  
  Texas, Select County Marriage Records, 1837-2015
  Alyce M Randolph
  Eldred J Jenks
  License issued 4 May 1919 Harris County, Texas, USA
  Solemnized 4 May 1919 by Justice of the Peace,
  Recorded Harris County Marriage Book 19, page 266
  Marriage License
  
  Texas, Select County Marriage Records, 1837-2015
  Alyce M Randolph
  Eldred J Jenks
  Marriage 4 May 1919 Harris County, Texas, USA
  Solemnized by Justice of the Peace,
  Recorded Harris County Marriage Book 19, page 266
  Marriage Recording Instrument
  
  His marriage to Alyce did not last long.  The census date was after the city directory for that year would have come out.  Eldred appeared along in the 1920 city directory and Alice Randolph appeared under her maiden name with her family in Houston.  Since Alice was listed under her maiden name, the marriage may have been annulled.
  
  This likelihood is strenghthened when we take into account that the Randolphs were Catholics.  No public record of divorce or annulment has been found.  Since their marriage was civil insttead of in the church, annulment would not have been so hard.
  
  We find a marriage record the next year for Eldred and one Grace Martin in Houston.  Later records for what appears to be this same Eldred J Jenks are found in New York and New Jersey.
  
  Texas, Select County Marriage Records, 1837-2015
  Eldred J Jenks, Harris County, Texas
  Grace Martin
  Marriage 12 Oct 1920 Harris County, Texas, USA
  Solemnized by Rev W S Jacobs
  Document Number 48713

Sources

• 1. Texas, Select County Marriage Records, 1837-2015
• 2. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
• 3. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 4. Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000