Fayette County, Tennessee Marriage Records, 1838-1857

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Fayette County, located in west Tennessee on the Mississippi border, was part of the state to come through the Jackson Purchase of land following the removal of the various tribes of Indians in the southeast. These are the first records of marriages for the area beginning in 1838 and going up to about the middle of the 1850s. Like all Tennessee marriages, these records contain only the names of the bride and groom with the date the license was issued following by the name of the official and the date of the wedding itself. Contains over 4,500 names. Example: Page 44 [of the original records] Jan. 1, 1841 - John C. Marler to Eliza S. Thrift by Israel S. Pickens, MG on Jan. 5, 1841. WPA Records 2013, paper, 137 pp.ISBN: 9780788486609 101E-TN1382 Show more