DECATUR COUNTY TN - VITAL - Marion Bivins and Annie Conaway 1903
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Marriage Registry, State of Tennessee, Decatur County, Page #562, 14 Feb 1903.
State of Tennessee, Decatur County. ________

Know all Men, That we,  Marion Bivins and J.E. Hopper, 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  adminnistrators, 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, Marion Bivins
hath prayed and obtained a License to marry Annie Conaway.

Now, if there shall not hereafter appear any lawful cause why the said   Marion
Bivins  and  Annie Conaway  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, this 14th day of February 1903

Marion Bivins         (L.S.) J. E. Hopper          (L.S.)

________________________________________________________________________________

State of Tennessee, Decatur County. _________

To any Minister of the Gospel having the care of souls,  Jewish Rabbi,  Justice
of the Peace of said County,  Judge or Chancellor--GREETING:

These are to authorize you,  or either of you, to solemnize the Rites of
Matrimony between Marion Bivins and Annie Conaway  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 aforesaid, more than though the same had never been
prayed or granted, etc.

Given at the Clerk's office of said County,  this 14 day of February, 1903.

(NOTE: Faded and not readable.)___________________ Clerk County Court.

(NOTE: Faded and not readable.)______________, D.C.
________________________________________________________________________________

I solemnized the Rites of Matrimony between the within named parties on the  14
day of Feby., 1903. W.R. Tuten, J.P.

Annie Conaway was Marion's 1st wife of 7-8 years, and the mother of Edgar
Jackson, Coy, an infant Daughter, and another infant who was deceased by the
time that the 1910 Census was taken and believed to have been the twin of Coy,
who was named Noy.  Annie passed away shortly after the 1910 Census was taken.

1. Anna CONAWAY

State of Tennessee, Decatur County. Know all Men,  That we, Marion Bivins and J.
E. Hopper,   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
severlly, firmly by these presents.

The Condition of the above Obligation is such,  That, whereas,  Marion Bivins
hath prayed and obtained a License to marry   Annie Conaway.

Now, if there shall not hereafter appear any lawful cause why the said Marion
Bivins        and         Annie Conaway should not be joined together in Holy
Matrimony as husband and wife,  then this obli-gation to be void and of no
effect;  otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.

Witness our hands and seals,  this 14th  day of February  1903.

Marion Bivins     (L.S.)

J. E. Hopper      (L.S.)
______________________________________________________________________________

State of Tennessee, Decatur County.

To any minister of the Gospel having the care of souls, Jewish Rabbi, Justice of
the Peace of said County,  Judge or Chancellor--GREETING:

These are to authorize you, or either of  you, to solemnize the Rite of
Matrimony between            Marion Bivins              and            Annie
Conaway 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 of
aforesaid, more than though the same had never been prayed or granted, etc.

Given at the Clerk's office of said County, this 14th day of February, 1903

_____________________________________ 
Clerk County Court. (NOTE: Signature faded
and not readable.)

_____________________________________, D. C.

I solemnized the Rites of Mateimony between the within named parties on the 14th
day of February, 1903 W. R. Tuten  J.P.