Bama Planter

MARRIAGE LICENSE COBB COUNTY GA DATED 18 May 1881 URIAH IVINS to SARAH CANTRELL Notice that the marriage certification part, where their names are written a second time, has him as Uriah IRWIN. PROOF that spelling mistakes at the time we very common. The man's last name isn't spelled correctly even on the same page. A different handwriting changes IVINS ( EVANS ) to IRWIN. This is known by all genealogists. New researchers get all upset over these mistakes, which are common and only show that people were not well educated ( even those who worked in the courthouse .

IT IS STRANGE how my mind works lately. I got the Cunningham table ( my great grandparents bought in 1901) back from my uncle in Florida's family. He died in 1990 and his widow just moved to assisted living. None of his children wanted it, so it was either me or the thrift store. It was me. They took the legs off to transport it here from Destin. I'm putting them back on now. 2 down ; 2 to go. I am thinking the next time the legs will be taken off, I will be dead and the table will be on its way to the next generation. I am writing the complete history of it on the underside while I have it on the floor. Hopefully more will be added in the future. I saw that first, on line, on the bottom of an 1840's work table. Every generation who owned/inherited it had written the who , what , when , and where of it.