Gaila I can`t remember if I told you this but according to the 1900 cencus Temphester Howard and Isaiah Johnson had been married 46 years so they must have married about 1854. Sandra >Sandra and I have one marriage that we can't believe didn't get filed. It >was likely Tempie Howard's father married her as Michael Howard was a JP and >married several other of his relatives, including his sons. > >We are sure they were married because they feature in church records after >that time, in Houston Co. I feel if they hadn't married they would have been >shunned. > >Is this marriage certificate likely to have been a loose paper not filed or >pehaps just missed when they did the Marriage books. It was likely this >marriage was prior to 1868. I guess we are lucky that we have found so many >of the other dates and information. >Billy, Thanks for the information, >Gaila > >snip >Prior to the GA Code of around 1868, most GA counties kept their marriage >records in no particular uniform arrangement. However, after 1868 and >the Reconstruction Period, things started to fit a particular pattern of >order. > >Starting in the early 1900s, there was a detailed marriage application to >fill out prior to marriage. This gave the names of the parents, where >they were born, how old they were, etc. These records are locked in a >long storage room in the basement of the courthouse. > >