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 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >