Bell County, TX, Marriages - Mr. A. Kennedy and Miss Annie E. Payne *********************************************************************** Submitted by: Sherry Davis-Ellis - ladysherry2@home.com December 27, 2000 *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. The information in this file is in the public domain, as set forth by the TX State Legislature. However, we respect your right to privacy. If you find your name on this list and want it to be removed, please send a request to the County File Manager listed on the Bell County, Texas TOC: http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/bell/belltoc.htm *********************************************************************** MARRIAGE RECORD STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF BELL. To any Ordained Minister of the gospel, Judge of the District Court, or Justice of the Peace: You, or either of you, are hereby authorized to solemnize, or join in the Holy Bonds of MATRIMONY.. Mr. A. Kennedy and Miss Annie E. Payne in accordance with the Laws of this State, and that you make due return of this, your authority, to my office, in sixty days from the date hereof, certifiying how you have executed the same. GIVEN under my hand and seal of this County, this 7th day of June 1881... W.W. Upshaw Clerk County Court, Bell County. BY... N Guiplor (unreadable) Deputy The foregoing License executed , by me joining the within named parties in the HOLY BONDS OF MATRIMONY, this the 9th day of June 1881. ...C. W. Payton Returned the 9th day of June 1881. A true copy of the original. Recorded this,the 21st day of June 1881 W. W. Upshaw Clerk County Court, Bell County. By .... W. G. G. (unreadable)... Deputy. Miss Annie Jane Payne was born in 1860 in Bell County, daughter of James Granville Payne and Carrie M. Thames. Alexander Kennedy, came to Bell County, Tx., from Scotland in 1880. James and Carrie are my great great grandparents. By Sherry Davis-Ellis ladysherry2@home.com