JEFFERSON COUNTY, TN - VITALS - Marriage Bond, Milton Travis to Adaline Wells ==================================================================== 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. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Debbie Blakley blakley3@earthlink.net ==================================================================== Marriage Bond MILTON TRAVIS Marriage Bond State of Tennessee 10th March 1865 $1250 Marriage Bond Hand Written by the Court Clerk of Jefferson Co., TN. Know all men by these presents that We, JOSEPH TRAVIS & G. W. PRATT are held and firmly bound unto the State of Tennessee, in the sum of Twelve Hundred and Fifty Dollars, to be void on condition that there be no lawful cause to prevent a marriage from being solemnized in the County of JEFFERSON between MILTON TRAVIS and ADALINE WELLS. WITNESS our hands and seals, this 10th day of February 1865. Signed; MILTON TRAVIS [ Seal ] Signed; G.W. PRATT [ Seal ] Test Signed; Jas. M. Nicholson, Clerk ************* MILTON TRAVIS Marriage License ADALINE WELLS 10th March 1865 Recorded in book page 227 Hand Written STATE OF TENNESSEE, JEFFERSON_ To any Regular Minister of the Gospel having the care of souls, or any Judge or Justice of the Peace for said County:..........Greeting: I, James M. Nicholson, Clerk of the County Court for the County of JEFFERSON, aforesaid, by Virtue of the power in me vested by law, do license you or either of you to celebrate the rites of Matrimony between MILTON TRAVIS and ADALINE WELLS by uniting them together as Husband and Wife. Given under my hand at Office, in Dandridge the 10th day of March 10th, 1865, and of American Independence the 89th. Signed; James M. Nicholson, Clerk I, solemized the rites of Matrimoney between the aforesaid couple, by uniting them together as Husband and Wife this the 12th day of March 1865. Signed; J. H. Brooks A Minister of the gospel