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Orange County Indexed

Callaway marriages

1 marriage in which the groom or the bride bears the name, oldest first.

Silas Callaway and Emeline Mebane

Marriage bond, 21 December 1865

Bond dated
21 December 1865
Married
21 December 1865
In the books
Orange Marriage Book C, pages 41-42, at the Register of Deeds
Other readings
  • Holcomb reads the date as 18 December 1865
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60003, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, Bra–Com” (the name falls near a reel’s first or last bond; check both).
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60001, “Marriage Record, 1851–66, and Marriage Registers, 1867–72”.
  • The 1936 State Archives abstract of the bonds, image 63 on FamilySearch, or the one before or after it: the bondsman and witness are there.
  • Find this marriage on FamilySearch (free account; its dates are often the bond’s).
In all the records
Every Callaway record, by decade: deeds, court minutes, wills, tax lists and more
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