HARDEMAN COUNTY TN - VITAL RECORDS - Marriage of Isaac Rogers and Mahala Elkins

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State of Tennessee, Hardeman County 



To any regular Minister of the Gospel, having the care of Souls, or any

Justice of the Peace for said County, Greeting: 



These are to authorize you to solemnize the rites of MATRIMONY, between Isaac

Rogers and Mahala Elkins of your County, agreeable to an Act of Assembly, in

such cases made and provided.  Provided, always, that the said Mahala Elkins

be an actual resident of this County; otherwise, these shall be null and void,

and shall not be accounted any license or authority to or either of you, for

the purpose aforesaid, more tahn though the same had never been prayed or

granted.  Given under my hand, at the Clerk's Office, in said County, this

18th day of March, 1834. Tho. Hardeman Clerk 



Know all men by these presents, that we Isaac Rogers and William Rogers all of

the County of Hardeman and State of Tennessee, are held and firmly bound unto

the Governor of said State, for the time being, his successors in office, or

assigns, in the sum of twelve hundred and fifty dollars which payment well and

truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and each and every

of us and them, jointly and severally by these presents.  Witness our hands

and seals, this 18th day of March 1834. 



The conditions of the above obligation is such, that whereas the above named

Isaac Rogers hath this day prayed and obtained License to marry Mahala Elkins.

Now if the said Mahala Elkins be an actual resident of the aforesaid county,

and there shall not appear any lawful cause why the said Isaac & Mahala should

not be joined together in Holy Matrimony, as Husband and Wife; then this

obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue. 



Isaac Rogers       (Seal) 



Wm. Rogers    (Seal) 



Written in hand 



I hereby certify that on tuesday evening March 18th 1834.   I solemnized the

rites of matrimony between the within named persons. 



Woodson Vader J P