First Marriages

                            Following are the dates of the respective licenses issued for the marriage of the parties named, the first in the county after its organization, all in the year 1839:

• July 11 - Daniel Richards and  Sarah Ann Lewis

• August 9 - James W. Wade and Hannah Lettys

• August 29 - Christopher Palmer and Rebecca Willson

• September 3 - Thomas Slater and Mary Ann Hart

• November 11 - John J. Cook and Marthetsea Baldwin

• December 3 - Franklin B. Spaulding and Rosalinda August

The First Real Estate Sale

    Entered upon the records of the county was made by Peter Olom and wife to Amaziah Beeson, in 1839 for $200.

Source: Biographical and Historical Record of Jay and Blackford County, Indiana. The Lewis Publishing Co., 1887.