Marriage Records
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Sep 1817 - Nov 1820
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Dec 1820 - Jan 1821
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1836 Glenn-McCracken Marriage certificate
Oct 1855 - Jan 1856
1817-1915 Marriages
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How I got an important Bond County Record
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| MORRIS-WARD 1830 Marriage License |
MORRIS-WARD 1830 Marriage Certificate |
I was a school administrator in Princeton, IL and the State of Illinois had an
"Early Childhood Education" meeting in Collinsville, IL that I attended about
1993.
While at the meeting I called the Clerk in the Bond County Courthouse,
Greenfield, to see how late they would be open on that day --a Friday if I
recall correctly. I was told the time they closed and I determined I could leave
Collinsville and make it there in time to look for a record.
The clerk asked me what record I would be looking for. I told her a marriage
record. She asked for what date. I said 1830. She said, "Oh my, I am not sure
our records go back that far."
I thought I was that close and that record was important to me so I decided to
take a chance.
When I arrived at the Clerk's office I reminded her or her assistant what I was
looking for. She repeated again that an 1830 record may be hard to find.
There was a row of 4 drawer metal filing cabinets and this person went to the
first file cabinet on the left and opened the very top drawer. She reached just
inside the drawer --in the very front of it --and pulled out a single sheet of
paper...looked at it and said, "Oh my. Here it is. I think it is the oldest one
we have." It was the hand written 1830 record of Isaac Newton Morris and
Elizabeth Ward marriage license for Bond County, Illinois!
Many people have copied from my Ancestry.com account and this record is all
over the place now --as if it was common knowledge and readily available for
the asking. If only people knew......
Jim White
