> > saw this on another list today and recognized the surnames from Burke as well > > File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: > Carolyn Shank Carolynshank@msn.com December 5, 2007, 9:02 am > > Wed. Nov. 1, 1826 North Carolina Journal > MARRIED, in Lincolnton Jail, on the 5th inst., by JAMES T. ALEXANDER, > ESQ., ALFRED MARTIN, aged 24 years, to CATHARINE BAUGARDNER, aged 13, after > a courtship of half an hour through the prison grates! -- West Carolinian > > File at: > http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/lincoln/vitals/marriages/martin782mr.txt > The marriage is recorded in Curtis Bynum, /Marriage Bonds of Tryon and Lincoln Counties, North Carolina/ (1929), p. 87 as follows: [Groom:] Alfred Martin; [Bride:] Catharine Bumgarner; [Bondsman:] Daniel Cammell (Campbell); [Date of Marriage Bond:] 5 October 1826; [Official:] J. T. Alexander.