Janie...The marriage books in the SC courthouse begin with Book "B"...and, I believe the first recorded marriage dates from Dec., 1879, if my memory serves me correctly...I am sure someone has those Lacy marriage books and can correct me if I am wrong.....of course, to answer your question, I am thinking that there MUST have been a Book "A" which perhaps burned in the 1880 courthouse fire.....I believe it was 1880??? Anyway, wouldn't it be great to be able to see that Book "A"???? I bet it would go back to civil war days!!!!! Anyone have anything on this???? Dewayne Janie <j.wagnon@cox.net> wrote: Did Searcy county keep marriage records for 1865- 1866?. Janie ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARSEARCY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection.

Researchers and Geraldine I and some other Shipman researchers have been working on John Shipman and wife Susannah and I had from earlier correspondence of one of their dependants been told that her maiden name was Cypert, however their is some data out there that says that her maiden name was Holt. And one fellow researcher sent me this. do you know of the Searcy County paper article about this tragedy and does it give Susannah's maiden name. If anyone has anything on her maiden name let me know. This John Shipman is a brother to my great grandfather Isaac Shipman. Also if anyone has this article I would love to have a copy. Janie Susannah HOLT was the dau of Thomas ( b. 1778 PA) and Ann ( b. 1782 SC) HOLT according to Leslie Wright SHIPMAN but Loranna GRAY has her as Susannah CYPERT born in ILL It is known that John`s wife Susannah went back to Mattoon, Coles Co., Illinois to escape the hatred/harassment of the Civil WAR. It is not known what John did during the war. I assume this family was for the UNION. Rebecca (AUSTIN) GREY died in Mattoon, Coles Co/. ILL and a lot of the other family members that got bad water on the Boat on the White River on their trip to Coles Co., Illinois. Some even died on the boat and had to be buried stop overs. There is a story printed in a Searcy County ARK Paper about this tragedy . I have the paper in my paper files and if I remember correctly it was written by one of the HORTON Women.

This sounds like the letter Hannah Horton Gray wrote to her children after arriving in Mattoon, IL. The letter is dated August 19, 1864. It may have been published in the 1980s in the Marshall Mountain Wave, but it IS on page 102 of "Searcy County Arkansas: A History of Searcy County Arkansas and Its People". This book has been reprinted by the Searcy County Historical Society, a co-sponsor of the Ancestor Fair. The letter was printed courtesy of Vena Gray Benton, of Baxter Springs, KS. The two sons: Benjamin F. Gray (1842-1865) and Thomas J Gray (1845-1929) both served in the Federal (Union) 3rd Arkansas Cavalry, Co. K. Benjamin also served in the Confederate Co. F, 32 Arkansas Infantry. James Warren Gray was serving with the Confederate Co F, 32nd Arkansas Infantry. The article about the Shipman family in the same book (article by Dorothy Matkin, with information from Leslie Shipman), says James Erwin Shipman's first wife was Nancy Holt. Another Shipman researcher says that Nancy Holt was the daughter of Joseph & Nancy Holt of Wayne Co., TN. No date of marriage or other proof offered. JJJ Janie wrote: > Researchers and Geraldine > I and some other Shipman researchers have been working on John Shipman and > wife Susannah and I had from earlier correspondence of one of their > dependants been told that her maiden name was Cypert, however their is some > data out there that says that her maiden name was Holt. And one fellow > researcher sent me this. do you know of the Searcy County paper article > about this tragedy and does it give Susannah's maiden name. If anyone has > anything on her maiden name let me know. This John Shipman is a brother > to my great grandfather Isaac Shipman. Also if anyone has this article I > would love to have a copy. > Janie > > Susannah HOLT was the dau of Thomas ( b. 1778 PA) and Ann ( b. 1782 SC) > HOLT according to Leslie Wright SHIPMAN but Loranna GRAY has her as Susannah > CYPERT born in ILL > > It is known that John`s wife Susannah went back to Mattoon, Coles Co., > Illinois to escape the hatred/harassment of the Civil WAR. It is not known > what John did during the war. I assume this family was for the UNION. > Rebecca (AUSTIN) GREY died in Mattoon, Coles Co/. ILL and a lot of the other > family members that got bad water on the Boat on the White River on their > trip to Coles Co., Illinois. Some even died on the boat and had to be buried > stop overs. There is a story printed in a Searcy County ARK Paper about > this tragedy . I have the paper in my paper files and if I remember > correctly it was written by one of the HORTON Women. > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARSEARCY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >