State of Missouri ) Dallas County ) I, A. S. Stanley, clerk of the Circuit Court & Exofficio Recorder in & for said County hereby certify that the Records of Marriages with the other records of Dallas County was destroyed by fire on the 3rd of Sept. 1867 and that no record of the birth of children has ever been kept in said County. Witness my hand and seal of said Court this March 5-1877 A. S. Stanley, Clk. Note: The above is taken verbatim from a photcopy of the hand written original obtained at the National Archives. It is contained in the records of the Application of Widow for Pension of Sarah E. (Newport) Powell, widow of Benjamin F. Powell who died in October 1863. Rick Gregg