Thought I would post this marriage, as it does not appear to be indexed in the Illinois State Archives'" Illinois Statewide Marriage Index". >From the 7 Aug 1850 edition of the Illinois Republican Newspaper on page 3, column 1: "MARRIED. On the 5th of August by Wm. H. Snyder, Esq., Mr. WM. PATE to Mrs. MARY TIRE, all of St. Clair county, Illinois." This MAY be the same couple indexed in the 1850 Mascoutah, St. Clair Co., IL, Census that I posted about here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/pate/2010-06/1275409751 April