HAMILTON COUNTY, TN - MISC - Missing Marriage Records
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The Pine Belt News, Vol.II No.4
Brewton, AL
March 18, 1895

Is Your Marriage Recorded?

A citizen of Hamilton county, Tenessee, discovered recently that there was
no official record of his marriage which had taken place several years ago.
The minister who performed the ceremony had gone to parts unknown and the
gentlemen is searching for him. This circumstance led to an investigation
which disclosed the astonishing fact that there is no official record of
the marriage of fully 300 of the good husbands and wives of the county. 
The Chattanooga Sunday Times prints a list of more that 1000 licenses 
granted from 1894-1895, inclusively of the execution of which there 
appears no official record.