Coryell County marriage licenses filed in May include 14 couples

Fourteen couples filed for marriage licenses in Coryell County during May, adding another monthly snapshot to the county’s public record. The list, part of the routine paperwork that moves through the Coryell County Clerk’s office, included names that will now join the paper trail families and local historians often watch closely.

The couples named in the May roundup were Daniel Gage Burton and Alivia Dawn Tatum; John Leonard Easterwood, Jr. and Gerda Johnson; Michael Wayne Ferguson and Amanda Kerry Conway; Jason Keith Fraley and Sierra Dawn Brister; Payton Spencer George and Andrea Michelle Haisten; Robert Larry Gray and Kimberly Kay Buckley; Garrett Lee McGee and Adalyn Renee Fritz; Amarion Jaquinten Sea and Shaniya Ebony Ta’Nae Harris; Ethan Conner Simpson and Jordan Michelle Cuellar; Eric Andrew Stone-Reeger and Hannah Elizabeth Donnelly; Toby Nolan Turner and Jayla Simone Hayes; Juan J. Varona-Torres and Keri Michelle Truman; Gerald Wayne Walker and Nancy Susan Collier; and Adam Karl Winslade and Leeza Faith Wood.

The filings do not say where each couple lives or when they planned to marry, only that the applications were made. Under Texas law, a marriage ceremony generally cannot take place until 72 hours after the license is issued, unless a waiver applies, and the license is generally valid for 90 days. That means the May list marks the start of the process, not necessarily the wedding itself.

In Coryell County, marriage licenses are handled by the clerk’s office at 620 E. Main Street in Gatesville and at the Copperas Cove Annex at 210 S. 1st Street. Both applicants must appear together, provide proof of identity and not have been divorced within the previous 30 days unless a waiver applies. Jennifer Newton serves as Coryell County clerk, and the office keeps normal hours Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The May tally also fits a regular reporting pattern. A similar Coryell County marriage-license roundup ran in June 2025, showing that these notices have become a recurring part of the county’s public-record coverage. With Coryell County’s estimated population rising to 85,592 in July 2025 from 83,093 in the 2020 census, even a 14-couple filing list offers a small but useful measure of the county’s continuing growth and the names now entering its official records.