NEBRASKA AND MIDWEST GENEALOGICAL RECORD;
                      VOLUME 10; PART 2; APRIL, 1932
           ARTICLE:  NEBRASKA MARRIAGE RECORDS - DODGE COUNTY
                              PAGES 29 - 30

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                         NEBRASKA MARRIAGE RECORDS
                                DODGE COUNTY
            Abstracts by Geo. C. McVicker, North Bend, Nebraska

       The first county seat of Dodge County, Nebraska, was
     Fontenelle, now a small inland village on the eastern bank of the
     Elkhorn river, in the western part of Washington County. The
     earliest license and marriage returns are found on the poorly
     scribbled pages of a small coverless book, kept in the vault of
     the county judge at Fremont. They were first recorded at
     Fontenelle. The first record of the probate of an estate in Dodge
     County is also in this book.

     (Note: the following text was single spaced in the original)

       Oct. 7, 1856 (license Oct. 6). William Henry Whittier, aged 24,
     and Emily K. Strickland, aged 21, both of Fontenelle, at the
     house of Samuel Strickland, by Thomas Waller, M. G.; witss.,
     Rufus Brown, Henry Bancroft, and others. (p. 1.)

       Nov. 1, 1856 (Oct 30). J. W. Pattison and Henrietta Redinour of
     Fontenelle, by S. I. Francis, Probate Judge; witss., Samuel
     Francis, H. I. Carpenter [name scratched off and F. W. Fox
     written in], and others. (p. 3.)

       Nov. 1, 1856 (Oct. 30.) F. W. Fox and Harriett Whittier of
     Fontenelle, by Silas I. Francis; witss., Samuel Francis, E. I.
     Carpenter, and others. (p. 5.)

       License Mar. 19, 1857. Harlow J. Carpenter and Ellen G. Griffin
     of Fontenelle. (p. 8)

       Emerson, Nebr. (a) Oct. 31, 1857. "Invintory" of estate of A.
     B. Parsons, dec'd, taken by G. Washburn, administrator and
     appraised by

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        (a) In 1866 Geo. Emerson constructed a log house at the
     western end of what is now known as Schmalle Lake. This became a
     postoffice and was then called a town.

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     Geo. Emerson, G. I. Turton, and C. D. Barber.

       Nov. 4, 1857 (Nov. 4). Seth Holton, aged 29, and Elizabeth Roe,
     aged 31, both of Fontenelle "at the Congregational house of
     worship", by Reubin Gaylord. (p. 9.)

       Sept. 5, 1859 (July 23). George Young, aged 34, and Elizabeth
     Sloss, aged 32, both of Franklyn, (b) Dodge County, N. T., by
     Rev. Isaac E. Heaton; witss., James Sloss, Mrs. Janet Morrison.
     (p. 24.)

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        (b) Franklyn, Dodge County, is now North Bend.