COCKE COUNTY, TN - MISC - Marriage Cert - Samuel S. Whitaker to Daisey Balch ==================================================================== 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: Carolyn Whitaker ATSISSIE@aol.com ==================================================================== STATE OF TENNESSEE, COCKE COUNTY. #500 KNOW ALL MEN, THAT WE, Sam'l S. Whitaker and McD. Guinn of said County and State of Tennessee, are held and firmly bound unto the 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, Samuel S. Whitaker hath prayed and obtained a License to marry DAISEY BALCH. Now, if there shall not hereafter appear any lawful cause why the said SAM'L S. WHITAKER AND DAISEY BALCH should not be joined together 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 13th Day of August, 1890 SAM'L S. WHITAKER (his signature) Mc D. Guinn (his signature) STATE OF TENNESSEE, COCKE COUNTY. To any Regular Minister of the Gospel having the care of Souls, Or any Justice of the Peace of said County-GREETING: THESE ARE TO AUTHORIZE YOU, or either of you, to solemnize the RITES OF MATRIMONY between SAM'L S. WHITAKER and DAISEY BALCH of your County, agreeably to the direction of an Act of Assembly in such cases made and provided. PROVIDED ALWAYS, That the Ceremony be performed in this County, otherwise these shall be null and void, and shall not be accounted any license or authority to you, or either of you, for the purpose aforesaid, more than though the same has never been prayed or granted, etc. Given at the Clerk's Office of said County, This 13th day of August, 1890 JOHN T. JONES (his signature) CLERK COUNTY COURT ALLEN BRYANT (his signature) Deputy I solemnized the Rites of Matrimony between the within named parties on the ______day of ____________,188____. (LEFT BLANK) SUBMITTED BY CAROLYN WHITAKER ATSISSIE@AOL.COM GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER