Just ret'd from my 2d stint in Arkansas and had not unpacked yet from Hawaii, so backed up. Sorry this is late. Only on Ancestry, that I know of. Several larger Fla libraries, including Tampa downtown, have them on microfische. Sue Jack Hudson <[email protected]> wrote: Sue the "Fl. index for marriages " you referred to, is that available on-line? Thanks Jack Hudson [email protected] wrote: > I have checked out the Fl. index for marriages - entire state- this is why I > was wondering if the fellow was in the service -where might the marriage > have been recorded- ? same thing for Betty Heathcoe Ussery- one would think > that the USSERY side of the line would know- I was told once that he ( > Lamar ) was never married to anyone but the woman he is or was currently > married to - and then it was said that the whole entire family thought she > had known she was sick when she married him and should have been ashamed of > herself- she died with cancer- she found she had cancer about the same time > she found she was going to have a baby,refused treatment to save the child > and they both ended up dead- but I was told they thought she already knew > and married the dude anyway- DUH- and then they tried to tell me they did > not know of a Betty- > Now what did all this sound like to you guys- but yet no one seems to know > where they married- > PS- everyone is now gone- no one left to ask that will tell me or might > know- > > > >> If the grandparents were still alive, the newly-divorced or widowed fella >> took the child/children home to mama or a married sister, to help him >> raise the kids. Don't know if that helps or not. >> Knowing you, Peggy, pretty sure you checked the surrounding counties for >> a possible marriage certificate. My own grandparents left their county >> home, parents' homes, etc., to go to a next-door county and get married >> because their favorite pastor had moved to a church in the next county and >> they wanted him to marry them. Took me years to find out where and more to >> find out why in the world they did that. >> Sue >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out.