Unicoi County TN Archives Marriages.....Shelton, Arta M - Southerland, Jacob L March 19, 1876
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Unicoi County Clerk's Office,  19 March 1876
Certificate No.:     11

                     State of Tennessee, Unicoi County



 To any Minister of the Gospil having the Care of souls, or any Justice of the 

Peace of said County - Greetings You are either of you,  Are hereby authorize 

the Rites of Matrimony between J.L Southerland and Arta M Shelton or our 

County, agreeably to the direction of the Act of Assembly in such case made 

and provided; provided always, that the Rite of Matrimony be solemized in this 

County; otherwise these shall be null and void, and shll not be accounted by 

License or authority to you, or either of you, for the purpos aforesaid, more 

than though the same had never been prayed or granted, etc.



   Given at the Clerk's office of said County, this 19th day of March 1876



                                                      J.B. Erwin

                                                           County Court Clerk





   Know all men that we J.L. Southerland and Jacob Southerland of the County 

of Unicoi, 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 truly 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, Witness out hands and seals, the 19th day of March 1876



 The condition of the above Obligation is such, Thet whereas, J.L. Southerland 

hath prayed and obtained License to marry Arta M Shelton.



   Now, if there shall not hereafter appear any lawful cause why the said 

J.L Southerland and Arta M. Shelton 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.



                                                          J.L. Southerland



                                                          Jacob Southerland





I Solemised the Rite of Matrimony between the within named parties on the 19th 

day of March 1876

                    W.E. Tilson J.P.

Additional Comments:
The above text was transcribed from a copy of the Orginal record No. 11 on 

file in the Unicoi County Clerk's Office in Erwin Tennessee.

                                                           Anthony Wayne Taylor

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