On May 2, 2006 Nay and I took a trip to Nebraska City, Nebraska to do research on the marriage of my great grandparents, Francis Thor Rolfsen and Esther Ann Pulley. We started our search in Morton-James Public Library. This small library had a wonderful genealogical resources section with many old records which had been indexed and microfilmed.
In an 1871 marriage index we found the location of the marriage certificate for my great grandparents. Original copies could be obtained and copied by walking across the street to the County court house. This turned out to be the oldest public building in the city and the very courthouse where the original marriage certificate was requested and filed.
Nebraska City Court House
Probate Judge R. H. Dickey married them on 16 September 1871 at the Home of Thomas Willock. [I think this might be Francis Thor's brother Thomas Wilson (Bent Rolfsen) since I cannot find Willock in the 1870 US Census.] There marriage was witnessed by James Wilson (Knudt Rolfsen) brother of Francis Wilson (Francis Thor Rolfson) and others. I assume the others were Esther’s mother and her Uncle William Pulley.
The library was about to close for the day and we were both hungry. We asked the cute librarian if there was a good place to eat in
town. She mentioned the old train station, which had been recently converted into a restaurant and gave us directions. The food was delicious and the train station was very old. This train station was built in the 1860’s and I imagine the very one that my great grandparents used when they departed Nebraska to go to Salt Lake City after their marriage.
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