Early West Tennessee Marriages. Volumes II. Brides

<p>This work is Volume II of a two-volume set. Volume I is arranged by grooms Volume II arranged by brides. There are approximately 57000 marriages (114000 names) including all extant antebellum records from West Tennessee. All pre-1861 marriages are set forth and where feasible and convenient (primarily because of cutoff dates of the original books) the authors have also included many later records as well. <strong>The information in the Brides Book (Volume II) is a duplication of that in the Grooms the difference being in the order in which they appear</strong>. Each volume is a single area-wide alphabetical listing of the records. Each entry includes the names of the bride and groom the date the marriage license was issued the date the marriage was solemnized and the county in which the marriage was executed. Following are the counties that are the subject of this work followed by the years represented: Benton 1832-1869 Carroll 1838-1873 Dyer 1860-1879 Fayette 1838-1871 Gibson 1824-1870 Hardeman 1823-1861 Haywood 1859-1878 Henry 1838-1867 Lauderdale 1838-1867 Madison 1823-1871 McNairy 1861-1865 Obion 1824-1877 Shelby 1819-1865 Tipton 1840-1874 and Weakley 1840-1874. The two-volume set Early East Tennessee Marriages two volumes and another two-volume set Early Middle Tennessee Marriages are also available from the publisher.</p>