HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY  521

    August, 1847—Charles Wilburn and Mary Long.
    October, 1847—Daniel Walker and Elizabeth Rizley.
    August, 1848—William Walker and Mary J. Phipps.
    September, 1848—William Nees and Martha Birchfield.
    October, 1848—Robert Mclntire and Allie Carter.
    October, 1848—Samuel Blunk and Rachel Hughes.
    November, 1848—George W. Reed and Elizabeth Eddy.
    February, 1849—George M. Alexander and Sophia Vanmeter.
    February, 1849—Alvin B. Thorp and Sarah Tribble.
    April, 1849—Milo Hoyt and Isabella Barrett.
    April, 1849—Wm. K. Houston and Jane Miles.
    April, 1849—David W. Pinckley and Matilda Melvin.
    June, 1849—Abraham Boor and Mary Pinckley.
    July, 1849—Benjamin Gummere and Amanda Cromwell.
    August, 1849—James Hinckman and Sally A. Scammahorn.
    August, 1849—Isaac Morris and Naomi A. Witty.
    October, 1849—Charles Mills and Sarah Roberts.
    November, 1849—S. A. Edmonson and Elizabeth Freedly.
    December, 1849—John Mace and Sallie Zenor.
    January, 1850—Ananias W. Lowdermilk and Frances Wheeler.
    April, 1850—David A. Stunkard and Zorelda Cromwell.
    September, 1850—Dillon Bridges and Lucinda Daves.
    November, 1850—David Moore and Dorinda McIntosh.
    November, 1850—William McCullough and Elizabeth Mace.
    November, 1850—Jared Peyton and Mariah Walker.
    December, 1850—Edmond Butt and Jane Mace.
    December, 1850—Saban Latham and Mary Parker.
    March, 1851—Jonathan Parker and Eliza Latbam.
    April, 1851—Charles Rheile and Amelia Wittenberg.
    May, 1851—Benjamin F. Pinckley and Matilda Gwathmey.
    July, 1851—Hezekiah Wheeler and Effie Harp.
    September, 1851—William Anderson and Dorcas Hynote.
    October, 1851—Thomas Coan and Betbana Cooprider.
    October, 1851—Henry Frees and Caroline Harsch.
    October, 1851—Silas Mullenix and Eliza Fox.
    October, 1851—Isaac Albert and Elizabeth Haney.
    November, 1851—James M. Hoskins. and Eva E. Carpenter.
    November, 1851—James Williams and Nancy Altman.
    November, 1851—Gilbert Liston and Eleanor Stout.
    November, 1851—Robert Griffith and Talitha Bowling.

                    Special Election of Circuit Judge.
    To fill a vacancy in the judgeship of the thirteenth judicial circuit,
composed of the counties of Putnam and Clay, under a new circuit
system, a special election was held on Tuesday, October 14, 1873. Solon
Turman, of Greencastle, was then occupying the position, by appoint-
ment of the governor, to which he had been called within the twelve
months preceding. The bar of the circuit, to the number of forty-four,
practically all the attorneys of the two counties, irrespective of party,
joined in an appeal to Mr. Turman to make the race for the place inde-
pendently, and to the voters of the circuit to give him their united sup-
port at the polls. Mr. Turman signified his assent and his candidacy
for the place. Later on, a mass convention was called to nominate a