BTW Conrad Hildebrand Jr (related to the Cherokee) who was one of our court officials in Burke County was married in Rutherford county https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F8BW-5Z1

Also keep other facts in mind. Laws were meant to broken. Marriage bonds in NC list no race. The marriages were done by local court officials and kept in the local court houses so they could sign off on what ever they wanted to and no one on a federal level would know if say a white man married a woman of color.