Application for Marriage License (Charlie Sorrells and Sophia Jane Woods)

Application for Marriage License (Charlie Sorrells and Sophia Jane Woods)

In his application for a marriage license, Charlie Sorrells indicated that both he and his fiancee, Sophia Jane Woods, were white. A.T. Shields, the same clerk of the court who denied Atha Sorrells' right to marry, signed the license. The Sorrells' name was later placed on a list of "mixed negroid" families living in Rockbridge, Virginia.

Rockbridge County (Va.) Clerk's Correspondence [Walter A. Plecker to A.T. Shields], 1912-1943. Local Government Records Collection, Rockbridge County Court Records. The Library of Virginia. 10-0477-001/002.

24 August 1925

Printed form and manuscript