Sandy, I cannot find where I got the marriage JCI of 1875 for Richard and Barbara...thanks, I have changed the date to 1874 in my records. Jo Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandy Bauer" <sandy@whalen-family.org> To: <ilfrankl@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 2:35 PM Subject: Re: [ILFRANKL] Grace (GIFFORD) BIRKHEAD (1897 - 1972) OBIT > One more question Jo Ann and I'll hush up on this topic. > > Where did you get the marriage for Richard and Barbara? Did they get a > license and then not marry for over a year? Wouldn't the license have > been no good by then? > > I see the following marriage in 1874: > > Illinois Statewide Marriage Index > > BURKHEAD, R W PEAVLER, BARBARA E 1874-07-14 006 0005 089 JEFFERSON > > > Sandy (Whalen) Bauer > > On 4/14/2013 10:06 AM, jmcghee6 wrote: >> Register-News, Mt Vernon IL, Fri 25 Aug 1972 >> GRACE BIRKHEAD >> MT. VERNON >> Grace BIRKHEAD, 75, of 804 Conger Ave., died at 11:50 a.m. yesterday at Good >> Samaritan Hospital. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. at Casey >> Avenue Baptist church, where Mrs. BIRKHEAD was a member with Rev. Buss HART >> officiating. Burial will be in New Hope cemetery. Friends may call at Myers >> Chapel after 5 p.m. today. The body will be taken to the church at noon >> tomorrow. Mrs. BIRKHEAD was born April 1, 1897, in Jefferson county, the >> daughter of Judson and Delia (NEWTON) GIFFORD. On June 4, 1914, she married >> Curtis BIRKHEAD. He preceded her in death in 1968. She is survived by three >> sons, Franklin BIRKHEAD, Elgin, Oral BIRKHEAD, Park Forest, and Judson >> BIRKHEAD, >> Springfield; a daughter, Mrs. Velma DAVENPORT, Mt. Vernon; two brothers, Amos >> GIFFORD, Bethalto, and Earl GIFFORD, Belle Rive; 17 grandchildren and 12 >> great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband and a daughter, >> Cona HILLIARD. >> >>Grace d/o William Judson GIFFORD (1870-1944) >> and Mary Delia NEWTON (1872-1946) >> who m. 24 Dec 1891 FCI >> Curtis Ray BIRKHEAD (1897-1968) s/o >> Richard Ward BIRKHEAD (1818-1904) >> and Barbara E. PEAVLER (1849-1927) >> who m. 1 Oct 1875 JCI