I am looking for William Houston LORANCE, married to Mary M. HILL (father Ira Hill) on August 17, 1853 in Gentryville.   Mary was previously married to Joseph Marshall Owen, who died in Gentry County on August 11, 1851.  She had a son by that marriage, Charles Lafayette Owen, b.1851.  I would love to find a marriage certificate, or any other leads to William and/or Mary's birth.   They were both born in Tennessee but met in Gentryville.   They had five children born in Gentryville.   They were: John H. Lorance, b. Sept. 8, 1856, Benjamin Franklin Lorance, b. Dec. 8, 1858, Thomas A. Lorance, b. Dec. 8, 1860, Oliver P. Lorance, b. Jul. 2, 1863, and Edmund B. Lorance, b. Apr. 4, 1865.   They moved to Brownville, NE in 1865 or 1866.      Are there any early records that I might be able to find them in?   I am aware that official registration started much later. Dawn-Moree Dugan Welcome, Maryland