I wish my documents were all this nice (apart from my diploma, I guess). Gold leaf, lovely handwriting, definitely a frameable piece of paper.
It reads "This certifies that on the eighteenth day of December in the year of our Lord 1888, O.N. Danner Esp and (??) Eva P. Haworth were by me united in marriage at St Paul, Nebr. according to the Laws of the State of Nebraska. Rasmus Hannibal, County Judge"
I can't make out the honorific/title before Eva's name--Mrs? Does that look familiar to you? When they were married she was just 17 so I doubt she'd had much time to get previously married and widowed.
Random lore: Oliver Newton, my great-great-grandfather, was a left-handed person who was "corrected" as a child. His daughter Olive was also left-handed, and he threatened her teachers that if they tried to "change" her, he would stand outside the classroom window and make sure they didn't do it!
Due to the existence of this certificate, I learned that Oliver was a lawyer. At least, that's what wikipedia says an American using "Esq" means. However, I don't know very much about him, at least for now. I haven't hit any dead ends yet in my research, but this might be one!
I went home to look through some actual papers I have rather than just doing web-based searches and found some very helpful things that will become their own post. Suffice to say for now that it was not a dead end, and to remember to use a variety of sources in research in order to not get bogged down.
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