--- On Wed, 9/24/08, marianne dillow <mdillow31@verizon.net> wrote: > From: marianne dillow <mdillow31@verizon.net> > Subject: Re: [ILUNION] marriages > To: "Peggy Oliver" <peggyjune@roadrunner.com> > Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 10:27 AM > Maybe it had to do with WW II since the 1940's is > mentioned ? > > Marianne Dillow > > > --- On Wed, 9/24/08, Peggy Oliver > <peggyjune@roadrunner.com> wrote: > > > From: Peggy Oliver <peggyjune@roadrunner.com> > > Subject: Re: [ILUNION] marriages > > To: ilunion@rootsweb.com > > Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 8:19 AM > > Sorry to butt in here, but I have long wondered why > so many > > folks from > > Franklin County went to Piggott, Arkansas to get > married. > > There must have > > been some reason because I have seen it hundreds of > times > > usually for > > marriages in the 1940s. I once thought perhaps there > was a > > military base > > there. > > Peggy Reynolds Oliver > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <rbsgen@aol.com> > > To: <ilunion@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:17 PM > > Subject: Re: [ILUNION] marriages > > > > > > > And don't overlook the obvious, Paducah, KY. > No > > blood test, no waiting > > > period. > > > > > > > > > In a message dated 9/23/2008 8:21:15 P.M. Central > > Daylight Time, > > > MStrahm487@aol.com writes: > > > > > > Piggott Arkansas is where a lot of my relatives > from > > Union County got > > > married. > > > Cheryl > > > > > > > > > In a message dated 9/19/2008 12:56:12 P.M. > Central > > Daylight Time, > > > genealogy@hobbits8.com writes: > > > > > > Oh, sorry. Since I know they did NOT get married > in > > Union County, I > > > wasn't thinking of anyone actually able to > tell me > > where they did get > > > married, only likely places of the time and > place for > > people to get > > > married. > > > > > > Their names were > > > Bernice Davault and > > > Hugh Edgar Van Hoesen > > > > > > Patti > > > On Sep 19, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Betty Fritch > wrote: > > > > > >> > > >> > > >> Patti, you didn't give us any names. > > >> > > >> Betty > > >> FL > > >> > > >> ----- Original Message ----- > > >> From: "Patti Hobbs" > > <genealogy@hobbits8.com> > > >> To: <ilunion@rootsweb.com> > > >> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 7:37 PM > > >> Subject: [ILUNION] marriages > > >> > > >> > > >>> Is there any information that might be > > helpful in identifying where > > >>> someone from Union County might have > gotten > > married in the 1930's. > > >>> You know, one of those things were it > was > > easier to cross the border > > >>> because of no waiting period. Recently > heard > > about someone who went > > >>> across a border because no blood test > was > > required and they were of a > > >>> religion that didn't allow that. > > Immediately bells went off in my > > >>> head > > >>> because my grandparents were > Jehovah's > > Witnesses at the time. > > >>> > > >>> My situation is that my grandmother > lived in > > Anna, and my grandfather > > >>> lived in Memphis or Thayer, Missouri. > As far > > as I know they did not > > >>> live in the same place until they > married. > > But both their families > > >>> were JW. So I'm assuming > that's how > > they met. I have not been able > > >>> to identify where they married. Union > County > > has no record. Shelby > > >>> County, TN has no record. Howell, Cape > > Girardeau, and Oregon counties > > >>> have no record. > > >>> > > >>> There may be no rhyme or reason, but > thought > > I'd ask if anyone would > > >>> have any knowledge of why a particular > place > > OTHER than Union might > > >>> be > > >>> desireable for marriage. > > >>> > > >>> Patti > > >>> http://hobbits8.net > > >>> > > >>> ------------------------------- > > >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please > send an > > email to > > >>> ILUNION-request@rootsweb.com with the > word > > 'unsubscribe' without the > > >>> quotes in the subject and the body of > the > > message > > >>> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> I am using the free version of SPAMfighter > for > > home users. > > >> SPAMfighter has removed 233 spam emails to > date. > > >> Paying users do not have this message in > their > > emails. > > >> Get the free SPAMfighter here: > > http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> ------------------------------- > > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send > an > > email to > > > ILUNION-request@rootsweb.com > > >> with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the > > quotes in the subject and > > >> the body of the message > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> ------------------------------- > > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send > an > > email to > > > ILUNION-request@rootsweb.com > > >> with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the > > quotes in the subject and > > >> the body of the message > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an > email > > to > > > ILUNION-request@rootsweb.com with the word > > 'unsubscribe' without the > > > quotes > > > in the subject and the > > > body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > **************Looking for simple solutions to > your > > real-life financial > > > challenges? 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Thanks for the suggestion about Piggot, Arkansas. I will check there. As to the marriages there in the 1940's and the supposition about the war, I do have a brother of my grandfather who filed a petition in court in Howell County, Missouri asking that the three-day waiting period be waived. He stated that he was on a short leave from the army (this was in the 1940s) and didn't know that there was a three- day waiting period and he didn't have that much time. He was able to get married. But maybe others just went elsewhere. I know this isn't the particular case for my grandparents since they were married in 1932. Patti