I want to thank you for the lookup.I have been looking for 20 years for this marriage record. I had another person also E-mail me with the lookup the 1835 marriage to Mary Wright is Michael Watson's first wife because he is listed on the 1850 census of Crawford County with a wife named Mary and their four children, I have a copy of the 1850 Crawford County census. I have a question for you the Leonidas Sledge you mention as your ancestor, is he the Louson Sledge listed as Nancy's 15 year old brother in the 1850 census of Houston County Georgia. I know that it is hard to read some of the names that the census taker recorded so they could have misspelled his name. If you are from the same branch of Sledge I have a lot of Questions. I also want to ask did the marriage record in the book list a bondsman or any reference to her parents or who married them, and I noticed that several references have been made on the list to Colored and White marriage records being mixed up was this marriage listed in the white or colored or was it listed by race at all? Also in Texas many of the Marriage licenses were not picked up at the court house so as of a couple of years ago relatives have been allowed to pick up the licenses,is this the case in Georgia? Respectfully Wally Wadsworth - Original Message ----- From: "Gaila & Jim Merrington" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 2:30 AM Subject: Re: [GAHOUSTO] Watson and Sledge families in Houston County area > HI > I find them in one of the wonderful CGGS books: " Houston County, Georgia > Marriage Records 1825-1898 pg 39. > Michael Watson Nanacy A Sledge 27 April 1856. > The Sledge family also married into my Howard family. Leonidas Sledge was > one of the Beauregard Troop in the Civil War. There may have been another > Michael because I see a Michael Watson marrying in 1835. > There is also a Watson Blvd in Warner Robins and through Centerville, GA. It > was a main throughfare in the area. > Good luck in your hunt, > Gaila > > > _____________________________________________ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html