MARRIAGES

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BALL, William McK, cashier of branch of state bank at Fayetteville, Washington Co, and Miss Rachel R. WILSON, dau of Col H. S. Wilson, of Huntsville, June 30, 1840 Huntsville, Madison Co.  (Arkansas Gazette, July 22, 1840)


BIBLE RECORD
OF THE MARRIAGE OF

JOHN HENRY HARRIS AND MARTHA JANE RITCHIE

THIS IS TO CERTIFY
THAT
JOHN HENRY HARRIS
Place of Birth  (not given)        Date of Birth:  Oct 30, 1883
AND
MARTHA JANE RITCHIE
Place of Birth:  St. Paul, Arkansas            Date of Birth:  Oct 15, 1883

WERE JOINED TOGETHER IN THE BONDS OF

HOLY MATRIMONY

at  _________________________  on the __________day of
June in the year of our Lord 1901.

_________________________Clergyman

WITNESSES
________________________________

________________________________

"Wherefore they are no more twain, but
one flesh.  What therefore God hath
joined together, let not man put asunder."
--Mathew 19:6

(Note:  A note written in the middle says that St. Paul was called "Old Scully" when Grandma and Grandpa lived there.  
Martha was born 15th October, 1883 in Yale, Johnson County, Arkansas, the daughter of Miles Ritchie & Vicy Jane Acord, she died 8th January, 1968, Boise, Idaho. She married John Henry Harris  in June 1901 in Pettigrew, Madison County, Arkansas. John was born 30th October, 1883, the son of John N Harris and Mahala Catherine Upton.)

--Contributed by Susan Fahnstrom



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