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- [S1554] Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV.
There are two entries for this marriage, MR Bk 1, pp. 33-34, and MR Bk 1-B, p. 17, the latter giving Aug 24 1853 as the date the marriage license was issued. The ceremony itself was held Aug 25 1853. Groom identified as Josiah Hart, age 24, born in Baltimore MD. Bride identified as Mary Mathew, age 18, b. Preston County. Her given age would put birth in about 1835, but 1900 Census gives her age as 68 and states her birthdate as Jan 1832. MR Bk 1 listed bride's parents as Humphrey & Sarah Ann Mathew, but MR Bk 1-B identified her father as Overfield Matthews.
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