John Cole - Rhoda Burnett, Desha Co, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Mary Nell Burnett Date: 20 Mar 2004 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** Desha County Marriage Book C: 43, Desha County Courthouse, County Clerk’s Office, Arkansas City, Desha County, Arkansas. This is to certify that on the 9th day of September 1858 at the house of H.Coleman I , D. H Hawkins, did solemnize the right of matrimony, between John Cole, age 53, and Rhoda Burnett, age 27. Ceremony performed according to the Custom of the Methodist Church (Episcopal) South of which church I am a Minister. Credentials recorded at Napoleon, Ark, given under my hand September 17th 1858. Desha County Marriage Record Book A: 95, Desha County Courthouse, County Clerk's Office, Arkansas City, Desha County, Arkansas Nelson Tucker, age 22 to Sarah Minerva Burnett, age 21, married on 4 February 1855. [ Note: Sarah and Rhoda Burnet were sisters and the daughters of Godfrey Burnett, formerly of Henderson County, North Carolina and Spartanburg County, South Carolina.]