A 146-year-old marriage certificate that was discovered in a thrift store has found its home with the help of a plea on Facebook. On July 26, Pam Phelps, an assistant manager at Hope Chest Thrift Store in Bolivia, North Carolina, took to cleaning an old picture of a little girl putting flowers in a black dog’s collar, which had been donated by someone. When she took to the back of the frame, she discovered a hidden marriage certificate of a New Jersey couple with the date of the vows as April 11, 1875. She kept it aside to show it to Karmen Smith, the executive director of Hope Harbor Home, Brunswick County’s Domestic Violence Program and Shelter, which operates three thrift stores. The next day, as Smith visited the store, she became aware of the find. “My brain immediately went into overdrive thinking of all the many reasons that this …