On Wednesday, April 11, 2001 1:37 PM, Bill Martin <martinbill@earthlink.net> wrote: >Enoch Galloway and Esther Cole[s] were married 25 Dec 1828 in Guernsey >Co. >[A rather interesting day for a marriage.] I read/heard somewhere (an NPR story, I think) that Christmas didn't become a holiday until later in the 18th century, after the publication of Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" in 1843. Until then, people commonly worked that day. Of course, my perpetual calendar says that this particular Christmas Day was a Thursday, which also sounds like an unusual day for a wedding. S R C A cott obert ranston nderson phssra@physics.emory.edu Admin, {C{offield,ollosky,ranston,ummins},OHGuerns,USAGen}-L@RootsWeb.com USGenWeb Coordinator, http://www.usgennet.org/usa/oh/county/guernsey/