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Uriah Evans marries Sarah Cantrell and made the newspaper in this amusing story !!!

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 .

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  1. This is truly hilarious! What a different world it was! TFS!! ~Robin~

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  2. He was my great grandfather's brother. He became a farmer and a "hard shell" Baptist preacher !!!

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