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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Hailey's last name was given as "Haly." Finally, the name Gayle,
than which there is none in Jackson County richer in honor and
distinction, appears in No. 83 as "Gale."
Finally, there is a matter of phraseology. To those familiar
with the religious difficulties that beset the early Texas colonists,
there is no need to explain the phrase, "who have given satis-
factory evidence that they were married agreeably to the custom
of the country." This custom of the country, as explained by H.
S. Thrall in his History of Texas (p. 68), was marriage by bond.
Deprived of the familiar civil and religious rites which they had
known in the United States, the first Texans devised a form of
matrimony suitable for the times. It is indicative of their honor
and integrity that these frontiersmen should want and find such
a pattern of sanctifying their marriages and homes. With the
creation of the machinery of government in the first years of the
Republic, many of these marriages were duly recorded. Num-
bers 1-7 and 9-12 were records of this type.'
Marriage License
Republic of Texas
County of Jackson
To all regular ordained Ministers of the Gospel Judges of the
District Courts, Justices of the County Court and Justices of the
peace of the county of Jackson
Greetings
You are hereby authorized and commanded in the name and by
the authority of the Republic of Texas to celebrate the rites of Mat-
rimony between Janus Dever and Martha Jane Guthrie alias Martha
Jane Dever who have given satisfactory evidence that they were mar-
ried agreeably to the custom of the country on the ninth day of April
one thousand eight hundred and thirty five
Given under my hand and Seal of the County Court; this eighth
day of October A.D. 1837 J . Menefee
J S. Menefee
Clerk C C C J
No. 2. Francis M. White and Rosannah R McNutt married Feb-
ruary 26, 1835. Recorded October 2oth, 1837, by J. S. Menefee.
No. 3. William Vess and Minerva Milican married April 9th, 1835.
Recorded October 29th, 1837, by J. S. Menefee.
'The publication of the records contained in the Old Marriage Book was made
possible through generous courtesies extended to the editor by Mr. Wayne Myers,
county clerk of Jackson County, and by Mr. Claudius Branch, tax assessor-collector
of Jackson County. To both the editor gratefully acknowledges help received.126
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