Good morning!! I am looking to find a marriage record in Morgan County, and I am totally unaware of how to locate it. I need the record of EPHRAIM and PHOEBE BATES, married approximately 1840. Were records kept that early, and if so, where could I write for a copy? THANK YOU so much for ANY help!! Tracy

There are several references to Ephraim Bates in the History of Noble County, Ohio, 1887. Do you have that book? Wayne

Traci I don't know the answer to your question bur have a suggestion. PERSI lists that both the Noble Co Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society (Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 2 Apr 1985) and Monroe Co Genealogical Society published articles on Ephraim Bates Revolutionary War Soldier. This gentleman might be an ancestor of the Ephraim you seek. Suggest you look at the articles and see if they give clues. 1820 US Census OH Morgan Co Noble twp lists Ephraim Bates page 083; 1840 & 1850 list an Ephrain in Monroe Co Union twp & 1850 Guernsey Co Seneca twp lisys an Ephraim. 1860 MI Lapeer Co MI Atica twp lists a Phoebe Bates. I dont have any other info about them so dont know if these are yours trace97@jps.net HBCRAFTERS@aol.com wrote: > Good morning!! > > I am looking to find a marriage record in Morgan County, and I am totally > unaware of how to locate it. I need the record of EPHRAIM and PHOEBE BATES, > married approximately 1840. Were records kept that early, and if so, where > could I write for a copy? > > THANK YOU so much for ANY help!! > Tracy > > ==== OHMORGAN Mailing List ====

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------F4A3F7E0FA09B6E92C7D4D45 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I checked all the marriages of Morgan County from 1820 through 1861 and there is no Ephraim Bates listed. Morgan County was erected in 1818 and established in 1820. There is no Ephraim Bates listed in the 1980 history of Morgan County nor in Roberterson's 1876? history of Morgan County. The IGI should have it if it occurred before 1875 anywhere in Ohio AND they were not Members of the Society of Friends known as Quakers. Quakers do not record mds. in the govt. offices. Morgan County has a large number of members of this church in Chesterhill. HBCRAFTERS@aol.com wrote: > Good morning!! > > I am looking to find a marriage record in Morgan County, and I am totally > unaware of how to locate it. I need the record of EPHRAIM and PHOEBE BATES, > married approximately 1840. Were records kept that early, and if so, where > could I write for a copy? > > THANK YOU so much for ANY help!! > Tracy > > ==== OHMORGAN Mailing List ==== --------------F4A3F7E0FA09B6E92C7D4D45 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="kha.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Haybron Adams Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="kha.vcf" begin:vcard n:Adams;Mr. K. Haybron x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Brigham Young University;Special Collections adr:;;;Provo;Utah;; version:2.1 title:Associate Professor of Library Science fn:Mr. K. Haybron Adams end:vcard --------------F4A3F7E0FA09B6E92C7D4D45--