Kern County Marriages
Affidavits for Marriage License

Leon Vega-Elvira Miranda

Submitted by Carol M Staats 2005

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These Affidavits were stored in a box in the Local History Room at the Beal 
Memorial Library in Bakersfield, CA.  They were loosely filed alphabetically and 
some had consent notes written by parents, guardians, etc. attached to them.  A 
few consent notes were written on the back of old envelopes and one on a piece 
of brown paper bag.  The following records concern the family of Jesus Miranda 
and his Native American wife Petra, who lived in the Kern River Valley.  My 
notes are in brackets. 

In the Matter of the Application of
Leon Vega
                For a License to Marry
Elvira Miranda
 
State of California}ss
County of Kern
 
                The undersigned, being first duly sworn, doth depose and say; 
That he knows the above named Elvira Miranda that she is of the age of 18 years, 
was born in California and a resident of  Weldon, Kern County California, and 
being  sworn deposes and says;
                That his name is Leon Vega that he is of the age of 25 years, 
was born in California and a resident of Kernville, Kern County, State of 
California, and knows of no legal objection to their marriage.
                Leon Vega
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 31st day of December 1893
J W Sumner, Justice of the Peace
 
[Elvira Miranda was the daughter of Jesus and Petra Miranda.  Leon Vega’s father 
according to census records was born in Chile.]