----- Original Message ----- From: "john t roark" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 4:52 AM Subject: [GARRISON] RAOGK - GARRISON-SMITH > I am forwarding the letter I received from a fellow Random Acts of Kindness > volunteer in Warren Co. Ohio.I have ask her for the copy from the > Archives.I guess this won't do me much good in finding the families of my > ggrandparents Robert Garrison and Susanah Smith but it at least proves they > were married there.I have ask some of you for help in the past and thought > this might interest you. > Jeany Garrison Roark in Indiana > > > > > >Hi Jeany, > > > >I went and viewed the microfilm that I ordered from the FHL. The film > >contains documents from Warren County Probate Court - Marriage Affidavits > >volume Y 1847-1854. On page 35 I found the official marriage license for > >Robert Garrison and Susanah Smith. The machines at this little FHL aren't > >equipped for making copies from microfilm so I wrote down what was in the > >document and I can go to the Warren County Archives and get you a copy if > >you'd like (copies from our county archives are free). > > > >The State of Ohio, Warren County > > Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, Clerk of the Court of > >Common Pleas, within and for the county of Warren aforesaid Robert Garrison > >who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that he is more than 21 - years of > >age, and has no lawful wife living, and that Susanah Smith is more than 18 > >years of age, and has no lawful husband living; that she is a resident of > >the county of Warren aforesaid; and that he knows of no legal objections to > >the marriage contemplated between him and the said Susanah Smith. And > >further the deponent saith not. > > Sworn and subscribed before me this 29th day of November 1847 > > G.W.Stokes, Clerk > > > > > >I'll keep looking. Let me know if you'd like a copy of this from the > >archives. > > > >Take care, > >Liz > > > > > > > > > ==== GARRISON Mailing List ==== > Search the GARRISON Archives: > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=GARRISON > >