I figured the war had something to do with it in the "40"'s. My parents got married in 1942 at Jackson, Mo. and my dad was in the Army. Marianne Dillow --- On Wed, 9/24/08, Patti Hobbs <genealogy@hobbits8.com> wrote: > From: Patti Hobbs <genealogy@hobbits8.com> > Subject: Re: [ILUNION] marriages > To: ilunion@rootsweb.com > Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 11:19 AM > 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 > > ------------------------------- > 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

BTW, Marianne, my grandmother whose marriage record I'm seeking had a sister Pearl who married a William Noel Dillow in 1914. Patti http://hobbits8.net