MARRIAGE LICENSE-Benjamin Walter Gooding and Louisa MCCulloch. Virginia, Madison Co. ***************************************************************** ****************************************************************** File contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives "Sandi Mauer" USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non- commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. Unauthorized use for commercial ventures expressly prohibited. All information submitted to this project remains - to the extent the law allows - the property of the submitter who, by submitting it, agrees that it may be freely copied but NEVER sold or used in a commercial venture without the knowledge & permission of its rightful owner. The USGenWeb Project makes no claims or estimates of the validity of the information submitted and reminds you that each new piece of information must be researched and proved or disproved by weight of evidence. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, 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. ****************************************************************** ****************************************************************** VIRGINIA-COUNTY OF Madison TO WIT: To any Person Licensed to Celebrate Marriages: You are hereby authorized to join together in the Holy State of Matrimony, according to the rites and ceremonies of your Church, or religious denomination, and the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Benjamin Walter Gooding and Louisa MCCulloch. Given under my hand, as Clerk of the County Court of said County, this 11th day of December 1861 F H Hill, Clerk. CERTIFICATE TO OBTAIN A MARRIAGE LICENSE, To be annexed to the License, required by the Act passed 15th March 1861. Time of Marriage, Thursday. December 12th 1861. Place of Marriage, Madison Hotel Madison Ct House. Madison County Va. Full Names of Parties married, Benjamin Walter Gooding & Louisa McCulloch Age of Husband, Twenty four years Age of Wife, Twenty one years Condition of Husband (widowed or single), single Condition of Wife (widowed or single), single Place of Husband's Birth, Culpeper County Virginia Place of Wife's Birth, Albemarle County Virginia Place of Husband's Residence, Madison Ct. Ho. Madison County Virginia Place of Wife's Residence, Madison Ct. Ho. Madison County Virginia Names of Husband's Parents, Robert Gooding & Elizabeth M Wills Names of Wife's Parents, James McCulloch & Mary Jane Smith Occupation of Husband, Boot and Shoe maker Given under my hand this 11th day of December 1861 F H Hill, Clerk. MINISTER'S RETURN OF MARRIAGE I CERTIFY, that on the 12 day of December 1861 at Madison Court House I united in Marriage the above named and described parties, under authority of the annexed License. Jas. O. Mosser (?)