Book Description

In this two-volume set, Volume I is arranged by grooms, Volume II arranged by brides. There are approximately 57,000 marriages (114,000 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. 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. 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.