LAUDERDALE COUNTY, TN - VITALS - Marriage, Seth Beshires to Miss Emma Beshires ==================================================================== 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: Charlotte Holloway CHoll37278@aol.com ==================================================================== STATE OF TENNESSEE, LAUDERDALE COUNTY MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE This certifies that Seth Beshires and Miss Emma Beshires were united by R.I. Long, M.G. in the HOLY BONDS OF MATRIMONY on the 3 day of December in the year of our Lord 1916 as appears of record in Marriage Record Book A page 278 this 19 Day of November 1979. Vernon McBride, Jt.; Court clerk STATE OF TENNESSEE LAUDERDALE COUNTY KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENT, That we Seth Beshires and ___________ of the County of Lauderdale and State of Tennessee, are held and firmly bound to the State of Tennessee in the sum of Twelve Hundred and Fifty Dollars, to which payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, and each and every one of us, jointly and severally by these present. Witness our hands and seals this 2 Dec 1916 Seth Beshires seal Gonys Woodkins seal The condition of the above Obligation is such: That whereas the above bounden Seth Beshires has this day prayed and obtained a license to marry Miss Emmer Beshires. Now if there is no lawful cause to obstruct said marriage, and for which a license is desired, then this obligation to be void; otherwise to remain in full force and virtue in law. C.S. Conney W.F. Woodkins