Could some one please look up a marriage for a Elizabeth or Liza or Eliza Martin and a Mayberry? It would have been before 1859. There was an Elizabeth Martin living with L D Martin and Rutha Martin in the 1850 cenus. I believe this is my gg grandmother. We have conflicting data. Her marriage certificate to my gg grandfather says Eliza E. Mayberry and James S. Strickland Freestone, TX. Her daughter's death certificate says her name was Liza Martin. The only think I can figure is maybe she married someone else before she married my James Samuel Strickland. The same Martin family listed 1850 in Union Co Arkansas is in Freestone County Texas in 1860 next door to my James and Eliza Strickland. Please help!!!! I am open for slightest leads on this! Thank you, Sharon Holland ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jholzer321@aol.com> To: <ARUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 2:44 AM Subject: Re: 1854 Marriage > If your grandparents, Samuel Byrd & Harriet Clayton, were in northern > Louisiana, it was convienient to come over to Union Co.,AR. In those days > Union Co.,AR was one of the largest counties in ARK & El Dorado was growing. > In 1854, it was probably easier to get married there, than travel south to > New Orleans or Baton Rouge & in those days, Monroe & Shreveport were small > towns. There were several Byrds in the El Dorado area....so it is very > possible they had kin there. Some folks sorta moved back & forth from Union > Co. to Louisiana. There was also a big land patent office on the Ouachita > River at Champagnolle, outside the town of El Dorado. > > The main info for a marriage in 1854 was handwritten in a ledger/sometimes in > a deed book. If you are lucky it will give the Groom & Bride's age, but now & > then some folks who were of age chose not to give it. It will tell you who > married them & sometimes if one was underage, it will mention consent given > by parents & how. > Sometimes there are witnesses. I have boo koodles of kin who married in > Union Co. & I have copies of the originals made in the 1840's & > 1850's.....usually they are about a paragraph in size. The court clerk used > some little squiggly sign as his special mark at the end of each one & then > there are one or two lines space between marriages. Later marriages, > sometimes, mentioned where the groom/bride were from, such as LA or the > county or the township. If the bride has been married before it will > usually list her as Mrs. Ann Smith, for example. > Hope this helped answer your question. They do have marriage books that > have been extracted from the Union Co., records, but some of the little > details you are curious about, probably won't be there. You can write the > ARK History Commission in Little Rock, giving them the info you have, pay a > fee, & request a copy of the original marriage license. > Janice > > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 > > >

Could this be your lady? Maberry Jesse H Martin Eliza E 1852 Book B Page 057B Diane Holland