HAMBLEN COUNTY, TN - MARRIAGE BOND - Joseph Travis to Ellen Butler ==================================================================== 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: Debbie Blakley blakley3@earthlink.net ==================================================================== State of Tennessee, Hamblen County Know All Men that we JOSEPH TRAVIS and__blank______ 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 truely 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 JOSEPH TRAVIS hath prayed and obtained a License to marry, ELLEN BUTLER. Now if there shall not hereafter appear any lawful cause why the said JOSEPH TRAVIS and ELLEN BUTLER 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 23 day of December 1895. Signed; Joseph TRAVIS L.S. Signed; Ellen BUTLER L.S. State of Tennessee, Hamblen 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 JOSEPH TRAVIS and ELLEN BUTLER of your County, aggreeably to the direction of an Act of Assembly in such cases made and provided. Provide Always, That the Cermoney be preformed 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 had never been prayed or granted, ect. Given at the clecks office of said County, this 23rd day of December 1895. Signed W. Williams Clerk County Court D.C. I solemnized the Rites of Matrimony between the within named parties on the 24th day of December 1895. Signed: G.W. Cockrum J.P.