Collection Details:

Collection Name and Number: Franklin and Harrison County Marriage License Collection (Z/2402).
Creator/Collector: Franklin County; Harrison County.
Date(s): 1876-1887; 1908  .
Size: 0.33 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH staff, Laura Heller, 2024.
Provenance: Gift of Jon Charles Acker of Coker, Alabama, on January 23, 2018; Z/U/2018.003.
Repository: Archives & Records Services Division, Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Rights and Access:

Access restrictions: Collection is open for research.

Publication rights: Copyright assigned to the MDAH. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to Reference Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the MDAH as the owner of the physical items and as the owner of the copyright in items created by the donor. Although the copyright was transferred by the donor, the respective creator may still hold copyright in some items in the collection. For further information, contact Reference Services.

Copyright notice: This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Preferred citation: Franklin and Harrison County Marriage License Collection (Z/2402), Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Scope and Content Note:

This collection consists of 35 marriage licenses from Franklin County, Mississippi, 1876-1878; 1880-1884; 1886-1887; 1896-1897; 1904, and 2 marriage licenses from Harrison County, Mississippi, 1908.  Some are found in the Mississippi Compiled Marriages Index. These do include African-American couples receiving marriage licenses.

 

Inventory:
Folder 1: Franklin County Marriage Licenses, 1876-1878  
GroomBrideDate
William SandersHaley Watson28 January 1876
Leo K. AldridgeCatherine E. Cresink28 December 1876
Warren ByrdSallie Johnson3 January 1877
J.E. MorrisMary Ann Westbrook18 December 1877
Isaac ByrdJane Swearingen10 January 1878

 

Folder 2: Franklin County Marriage Licenses, 1880-1882  
GroomBrideDate
William E. Mullins/MullianFrancis C. Womack23 November 1880
Seaborn GarnerNicy Barnes5 June 1880
Norman NelsonVictoria McNeil10 July 1880
Frag GillsLottie Hickingbottom26 January 1881
W.S. LeeLou Ellen Spencer Simons24 February 1881
William J. SteeleSarah V. Pitman21 December 1881
C.N/W. WilkinsonMartha Sterling27 January 1881
Cicero Caston/CastorFrancis McKnight6 November 1882
Washington Stewart/Seward or Stewart WashingtonJenny Williams20 July 1882
William ThornhillMary Ellenore Coffey22 November 1882
Prince CameronMany Fells1 November 1882
Dr. J.J. RobertsonSue I.(?) Guice22 November 1882
William O. Shuntleff? Alice E. Hemby12 November 1882

 

Folder 3: Franklin County Marriage Licenses, 1883-1884; 1886-1887  
GroomBrideDate
Calvin WilliamsMelden Allen22 February 1883
Winse? HardenDonie Hines12 July 1883
Henry SmithCreasy Scott20 January 1883
Henry BealAlice/Allis Havis5 January 1883
Hiram SmithRose Ann McManus5 May 1883
Stephen SessionsGracy Brown24 February 1884
Dan Cofton/CottenAlice Jones7 March 1884
Thomas MaxwellViola Betton12 June 1886
John ByrdMalissa Ann Jackson11 April 1887
Lawyon/Laruyer CameronHannah Williams27 August 1887

 

Folder 4: Franklin County Marriage Licenses, 1896-1897; 1904  
GroomBrideDate
N.L. MayD.A. Williams16 December 1896
Robert P. ReynoldsLourena Aldridge24 December 1896
C.O. PriceMollie Gill16 December 1896
J.W. EvansAda Lumpkins18 November 1896
C.W. Pickering / PickmanDora Linden22 December 1896
O.M. GravesSophia Collins14 January 1897
Cammie CainJane Sizmore3 November 1904

 

Folder 5: Harrison County Marriage Licenses, 1908  
GroomBrideDate
Henry GrahamDonia Saucier15 July 1908
Fred William Percy/PerezMargrette Louise Hassey10 July 1908