BENTON COUNTY, TN - VITALS - Marriage record, Hill to Baber, 1870 ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Phyllis Hill phill@redrock.net ==================================================================== MARRIAGE BOND Know all Men, That we J. C. Hill & G. C. Thomas of the County of Benton and State of Tennessee, in the sum of Twelve Hundred and Fifty Dollars, to which payment well and truly to be made, we bind our heirs, executors and administrators, and each and every one of us and them, both jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. The Condition of the above obligation is such: That Whereas, J. C. Hill hath prayed and obtained a license to marry Mary A. Baber, Now, if the said Mary A. Baber be an actual resident in the County aforesaid, and there shall not hereafter appear any lawful cause why the said J. C. Hill and Mary A. Baber should not be joined in Holy Matrimony as Husband and Wife, then this obligation to be void and of no effect; otherwise to remain in full force and virtue. Witness our hands and seals, the 4 day of Oct 1870 J. C. Hill (Seal) G. C. Thomas (Seal) MARRIAGE LICENSE STATE OF TENNESSEE,) COUNTY OF BENTON ) To any one Legally Authorized to Solemnize Marriages: These are to Authorize you to solemnize the Rites of Matrimony between John C. Hill and Mary A. Baber of your County, agreeable to an Act of Assembly, in such cases made and provided: PROVIDED ALWAYS, that the said Mary A. Baber be an actual resident of this County; otherwise this shall be null and void, and shall not be accounted any License or authority for you, or either of you, for the purpose aforesaid, more than the same had never been prayed or granted. Given under my hand, at the Clerk's Office, in said County, this 4th day of October 1870. D. A. Bruer Clerk CERTIFICATE I Hereby Certify, that I solemnized the Rites of Matrimony between the within named parties on this 6th day of October 1870. Eld. George Hollowell