The one of the Obion Co Early Marriage book you are talking about covers the years 1838-1845 and it is not indexed, so you will have to look by the page. Also, need to clarify that the Birth & Death Index books covers the years 1925-1938 only. The Birth Index does give names of the parents, where born, and the date, but the Death Index only gives the names of the deceased, place of birth, where they died, what they died of, and the date. It does not state the deceased parents names. Both are alphabetically indexed. It's always a good idea to check all the book racks, yourself. You never know what you may find. I did want to say the the people that work in the Obion County Court Clerk's office & the Deed Room are some of the niciest people and they are extremely helpful to anyone that goes in there. I could not have done without their help. Gay Mathis ----- Original Message ----- From: "THEGREENES" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 7:56 PM Subject: [TNOBION] Obion Co records > Several people have emailed me to do marriage lookups and I have tried > to accommodate them as quickly as I could. I have the book Obion Co TN > Loose Marriage Records 1825-1860 and local access to several other old > books. I went to Union City and did lookups in the marriage books at the > courthouse about 10 days ago. Officially their marriage books start in > 1868. However, about the 3rd or 4th rack to the right, at the end of the > marriage books, there are 3 volumes. One is a birth record book, one a > death record book, and the third is a small (8x10") early marriage book. > The clerks did not seem to know it was there. So if you are doing > research on marriages either personally or for hire, make sure you take > a look at this book. > > As for records of cemetery plots, I have never tried to find that info > in Obion Co. but several years ago a lady in Calif. checked a map and > figured out that the town I live in is close to where her grandfather > was buried. She asked me to check to see if records are kept and to > photograph the grave. I made several trips to the church which adjoined > the cemetery before I found the pastor on the premises. He told me there > were no records. After further conversation he went to the basement and > brought up some boxes. He let me look through cardboard boxes of 4x6 > index cards, each one representing a 6 grave plot. On the card it was > drawn out who was in each grave with date of death, also the name and > address of the person who purchased the plot. I located the lady's > ancestor's card and copied it. Then the pastor and I went to make a > photo. Her grandfather did not have a marker but I took a picture of the > other markers and the empty-looking space. I took a transparency, placed > it over the photo, and marked the spot for her. After saying all this, > if you can locate someone at a church connected with a particular cem. > you might be surprised what records are in cardboard boxes in the > basement. > > Finally, if you need to check Obion Co Histories or the cemetery books, > they are kept behind the librarian's desk and you have to ask for them. > Old newspapers on microfilm are in a file cabinet. The earliest copies > on microfilm are in extremely poor condition. There were other old > newspapers with the loose packets that had been stored in the old jail, > but 2 yrs ago when volunteers were sorting the records so they could be > microfilmed, a man was taking all the old papers they came across. He > said he just loved to read those and took them home. Heaven only knows > where they are now. > > Good luck. > Virginia Greene > [email protected] > > > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/search > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > >