Rachel It might be worth your while to check Navarro or Hill Co. since they were in the north part of Limestone Co. they would have been able to get to a courthouse without crossing the river. Well stop this discussion because I found in the Limestone Co marriage records Hugh M Smith to Laura K C Bell 1887. So they crossed the river :>) Call Limestone Co. courthouse & ask them to copy the marriage cert. & mail you a copy. Pat Oates in TX. At 10:18 PM 4/2/2001 -0400, you wrote: >Hoping someday to find the marriage record of my grandparents - Hugh >McLaurin Smith and Laura Katherine Bell (sometimes spelled Catherine), >married September 4, 1887. > >As written in her father's journal, Laura and Hugh were married "at home" on >the farm "..beautifully situated three miles north from the town of >Tehuacana on the Tehuacana and Corsicana road..." (So described in the sale >poster, 1904.) Her father was Dr. Charles M. Bell who moved from Alto to >the farm near Tehuacana in 1863 with his wife, Mary Catherine >(Sickenberger) and baby son, Theodore Everitt Bell. Laura and her other >siblings were all born at the farm between 1864 and 1880 (Florence Ida Bell >Kirk, Jonas Prescott, Laura Katherine Bell Smith, Fidelia Bell Needham, >Blanche Rose Bell Eastwood, Edward Hinman, and Clara/Clarissa Bell Ingram). > >Mary Catherine Bell is buried in Tehuacana Cemetery; Dr. Bell's resting >place remains a mystery. He did remarry after Mary Catherine's death in >1885, but he neglected to mention the dear woman's name... and so far, I've >not been able to identify her. > >Rachel >