A Simple Marriage License

What kind of information would a marriage license have?  Date, place, maybe signatures.  I have a copy of the marriage license for M.C. Henry and Miss Margaret Renfrow.  These people are Zola's parents, Pop Henry and Great Grandma Thornsbury.  Good stuff to be learned:

1. MC Henry is Marion Clinton Henry.  It seems he is referred to as Clint by his sisters, but seems his brothers often called him MC.
2. He was 21 years old when he married Margaret, and she was 15 years old.  It's interesting to note also, that she did not have to have parental consent to marry.  Which means she was of legal age.  
3. They were married January 3, 1909 by a Justice of the Peace, J.W. Dean.
4. A handwritten personal note was written on the license by Great Grandma.

"Son of M.C. and Margarett Henry borned February 2th 1912.  Died Feb 2th 1912.  Gone but not forgotten.  He has gone our presise darling never more will he return for he sleeps a peaceful slumber till the resurrectin morn.

for our beloved one gone 

suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not for sich is the Kingdom of Heven, aman."

This makes me so sad for them.  Child birth was so different in her world.  You may have noticed the spelling, as I typed it just like it appears.  Margaret never attended formal schooling, census records indicate she could read and write but that she hadn't attended school.  From previous pictures we know Clint attended some schooling, though I am not sure how much.  

In trying to find out normal ages for marriage then, there isn't really a standard answer.  Each state varied and life expectancy for a woman in the early 1900's is 50 years old.  Things such as poverty, fear, social status, and security (if she lacks family members - men - to provide) all contribute.  Although young, frankly it seemed to be the norm to marry around 15 to 16 years of age for girls in Arkansas at the time.  

This baby boy was born in 1912, Zola (born in 1916) was their oldest child (I thought) until finding this marriage license and note.  I wonder if there were more losses before Zola was born and survived.  

Finding this makes Margaret a little more real to me.  I mean, I knew her but only as an old great grandma with mushy apples and a house that was elevently-billion degrees.  But she was a young mom, with great loss too.  

Margaret Renfro Henry - about 1936 (about 43 years old)