Marriage Records for Mead Holt and Mary A. Shannon 1841

Marriage Bond for Marriage of Mead Holt to Mary A. Shannon 1841

   

     Know all men by these presents, That we Mead Holt and Samuel Shannon, Jr. are held and firmly bound unto the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the penal sum of fifty pounds, current money, to the payment of which well and truly to be made to the said Commonwealth, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators jointly  and severally firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals and dated this 31^st day of May 1841.

     The condition of the above obligation is such, that whereas there is a marriage shortly intended between the above bound Mead Holt and Miss Mary A. Shannon, daughter of Samuel Shannon.

     Now if there be no lawful cause to obstruct said marriage, then this obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue in law.

Witness:

James R. Stephens, Clk                                                                    Mead Holt {Seal]

                                                                                              Sam’l Shannon, Jr. {Seal}

 

 

 

The consent for Mary reads:

Union County

     Samuel Shannon, Jr this day came before me the undersigned, and Justice of the Peace in and for Union County and made oath that Mary A. Shannon, daughter of Samuel, who is about to intermarry with Mead Holt is above the age of twenty one years, and that her place of residence is within the County of Union.

   Witness my hand this 31^st day of May 1841.

A.L. Churchill, JP

Peterson Wall, Minister, Marriage 1841-1843



   

Minister’s Return of Peterson Wall, Minister of the Gospel of the Methodist Episcopal Church which was returned April 1843 for the marriages he had celebrated from 1841 to 1843. Listed are Mead Holt and Mary Shannon. The marriage was celebrated 1^st June 1841.

Records are from Union County Court Clerk and reference from Union County, Kentucky Marriage Books 1811-1853” compiled by Peyton Heady