July 2007

This is the courthouse where Grandpa and Grandma Martineau were married in 1923. Since they needed witnesses, they went out into the street and rounded up a couple of witness and got them to come in and witness their marriage. They never got their names or knew who they were or where they were from. The county seat has since been moved to Bisbee (I believe). The model A Ford that they went to St. George in had the gas tank just in front of the dash board on the outside of the car. On the way home, when the road got too steep, they would have to turn around and back the car up the hill so the gasoline in the tank would be higher than the carburator. Grandpa told me that when they got back from St. George, he had only a dime left in his pocket. On the way both ways, they simply pulled off the road and slept on blankets with the open sky.