McNairy County TN, marriage Banker and Roark
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STATE OF TENNESSEE, McNAIRY COUNTY,

MARRIAGE LICENSE,

To any one Legally Authorized to Solemnize Marriages:

     These are to Authorize You  to  Solemnize  the  Rites  of  Matrimony
     between D. A. Banker and Miss Mary Roark of your  County,  agreeably
     to an Act of Assembly in such cases  made  and  provided.  Provided,
     always, that the said Miss Mary Roark be an actual resident of  this
     County; otherwise this shall be null and  void,  and  shall  not  be
     accounted any license or authority for you or either of you, for the
     purpose aforesaid, more than if the same had never  been  prayed  or
     granted.

     Given under my hand, at the Clerk’s Office, in said County, this  10
     day of Nov 1873

                                                                                                                        (signed) C. ??? Clerk.

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CERTIFICATE

State of Tennessee}

McNAIRY COUNTY}

     I solemnize the RITES OF MATRIMONY between the within named  parties
     on the 13th day of Nov 1873.

                                                                                                                            (signed) R. D. Wilson J.P.

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     Know all Men by these Presents, That we  D.  A.  Banker  and  J.  P.
     Banker of the County of McNairy and State of Tennessee, are held and
     firmly bound unto the STATE OF  TENNESSEE,  in  the  sum  of  Twelve
     Hundred and Fifty Dollars, to which payment, well and  truly  to  be
     made, we bind ourselves, our heirs,  executors  and  administrators,
     and each and every one of us and them, jointly and severally, firmly
     by these presents. Witness our hands and seals this 10  day  of  Nov
     1873.

     The Condition of the above Obligation is such, That  Whereas  D.  A.
     Banker has this day prayed and obtained  a  license  to  marry  Mary
     Roark. Now, if the said Roark be an actual resident  of  the  County
     aforesaid, and there shall not hereafter appear any lawful cause why
     the said Banker and Roark should not  be  joined  together  in  holy
     matrimony as husband and wife, then this obligation to be  void  and
     of no effect; otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.

                                                                                                                        (signed) D. A. Banker (seal)

                                                                                                                        (signed) J. P. Banker (seal)