Old Tishomingo County Marriages

1837

Man's Name	Women's Name	Date/Year 1837
Azbell, John P.	Phillips, Jane	April 2,
Hancock, Wm.	Roden, Dellia	April 14,
Atherton, Asabel	Cattel, Bearzilla	October 10,
Fitzpatrick, Wm.	Wilson, Sarah	December 15,
Douglass, Thomas	McIntire, Mariam	December 19,

The First Marriage License Issued in Tishomingo County. Corinth Herald's 1903
No marriages were solemnized in Tishomingo County during the year 1836. However, it is reasonable to suppose that a few couples, at least, made the trip to adjoining counties for the purpose of being made one. the first marriage license issued in the county was dated April 2, 1837, and was as follows:

Know all men by these presents that we, John P. Azbell and Nicholas McMillion, all of the county of Tishomingo and State of Mississippi, are held and firmly bound unto his excellency, Charles Lynch, Governor of the State of Mississippi, and his successors in office in the penal sum of two hundred dollars, which payment well and truly to be made and done, we bind ourselves, our heirs, ect., jointly, severally, and firmly by these presents; but to be void on condition that there is no lawful cause to obstruet the marriage between John P. Azbell and Jane Phillips.
"Given under our hands and seals this 2d day of April, 1837.
J.P. Azbell (Seal)
N.McMillion (Seal)
Attest; B.Bullard,D.C.

State of Mississippi,
Tishomingo County.
To any regular minister of the gospel, having the care of souls or any justice of the peace:
These are to authorize you, or eather of you, to solemnize the rites of matrimony between John P. Azbell and Jane Phillips, of your county, agreeable to the directions of an act of the assembly in such casas made and provided; provided, although, that the said Jane Phillips be an actual resident in this county, otherwise these shall be null and void, and shall not be accounted any license or authority to you, or either of you, for the purposes aforesaid, more than the same had naver been granted.
Given at the clerk's office of said county, this 2d day of April, 1837.
John Reeves, Clerk,
By B. Bullard, D.C.
Solemnized April 3, 1837.
B. Bullard,
" Justice of the Peace."