Good thinking James. I have great grandparents who have a wedding picture but no marriage certificate. Depending on whether you believe family records [based upon what I have no idea, most likely what the wife told her kids and grandkids] or the 1900 census they were married a year or two before their first child was born. Husband's obit says they were married in Sangamon rather than Logan which seems a bit odd but certainly possible. However, neither Sangamon nor Logan nor any other county in the state has a marriage license for them. Unfortunately there no local newspaper for the time survives and the Lincoln paper has been searched. On 10/12/07, James Cunningham <cumbo24@earthlink.net> wrote: > > I don't know where they were married. Rumor has it that they were > married in Iowa. Howard is from Lincoln so I wanted to see if there > was some announcement in the newspaper to give me a hint to where to > look. They then lived in Lincoln and had kids. > > On Oct 12, 2007, at 6:52 PM, Cheryl Rothwell wrote: > > > Marriage licenses were mandatory. Have you tried the County Clerk? > > > > > > > > On 10/12/07, Jim Cunningham <cumbo24@earthlink.net> wrote: > >> > >> Is anyone able to look for any announcement for the marriage of > >> Howard > >> Cunningham and Margaret Mary Campbell in the Lincoln newspaper? I > >> believe > >> they were married in 1913 or 1914. I can't seem to find any > >> records that > >> have their date of marriage on it. > >

Thanks cheryl. On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Cheryl Rothwell wrote: > Good thinking James. I have great grandparents who have a wedding > picture > but no marriage certificate. Depending on whether you believe > family records > [based upon what I have no idea, most likely what the wife told her > kids and > grandkids] or the 1900 census they were married a year or two > before their > first child was born. Husband's obit says they were married in > Sangamon > rather than Logan which seems a bit odd but certainly possible. > However, > neither Sangamon nor Logan nor any other county in the state has a > marriage > license for them. Unfortunately there no local newspaper for the time > survives and the Lincoln paper has been searched. > > > > On 10/12/07, James Cunningham <cumbo24@earthlink.net> wrote: >> >> I don't know where they were married. Rumor has it that they were >> married in Iowa. Howard is from Lincoln so I wanted to see if there >> was some announcement in the newspaper to give me a hint to where to >> look. They then lived in Lincoln and had kids. >> >> On Oct 12, 2007, at 6:52 PM, Cheryl Rothwell wrote: >> >>> Marriage licenses were mandatory. Have you tried the County Clerk? >>> >>> >>> >>> On 10/12/07, Jim Cunningham <cumbo24@earthlink.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> Is anyone able to look for any announcement for the marriage of >>>> Howard >>>> Cunningham and Margaret Mary Campbell in the Lincoln newspaper? I >>>> believe >>>> they were married in 1913 or 1914. I can't seem to find any >>>> records that >>>> have their date of marriage on it. >>> > ________ > Logan County ILGenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan > > To unsubscribe send a message to: > ILLOGAN-request@Rootsweb.com > with unsubscribe as the subject. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILLOGAN- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

You might try Indiana too. I stumbled across one there. Joan Cheryl Rothwell <historysleuth@gmail.com> wrote: Good thinking James. I have great grandparents who have a wedding picture but no marriage certificate. Depending on whether you believe family records [based upon what I have no idea, most likely what the wife told her kids and grandkids] or the 1900 census they were married a year or two before their first child was born. Husband's obit says they were married in Sangamon rather than Logan which seems a bit odd but certainly possible. However, neither Sangamon nor Logan nor any other county in the state has a marriage license for them. Unfortunately there no local newspaper for the time survives and the Lincoln paper has been searched. On 10/12/07, James Cunningham wrote: > > I don't know where they were married. Rumor has it that they were > married in Iowa. Howard is from Lincoln so I wanted to see if there > was some announcement in the newspaper to give me a hint to where to > look. They then lived in Lincoln and had kids. > > On Oct 12, 2007, at 6:52 PM, Cheryl Rothwell wrote: > > > Marriage licenses were mandatory. Have you tried the County Clerk? > > > > > > > > On 10/12/07, Jim Cunningham wrote: > >> > >> Is anyone able to look for any announcement for the marriage of > >> Howard > >> Cunningham and Margaret Mary Campbell in the Lincoln newspaper? I > >> believe > >> they were married in 1913 or 1914. I can't seem to find any > >> records that > >> have their date of marriage on it. > > ________ Logan County ILGenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan To unsubscribe send a message to: ILLOGAN-request@Rootsweb.com with unsubscribe as the subject. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILLOGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Joan Black Lund jblgene@sbcglobal.net http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~joanlund/

I think someone would have noticed if they had been gone long enough to go to Indiana by horse. They may have taken the train to Springfield so that made a bit of sense. It's all just a bit odd. I know in the bad old days some records "walked" out of courthouses but I can think of no earthly reason anyone would want this one. I have to think it was just misfiled but I haven't figured out under what. I think I have tried every possible search in the book.