Marshall Co., TN Marriage Records

Names:  W. L. Endsley & Miss Ethel Chapman

Volume No.  4

Page      No.  607

Bond:  Twelve Hundred and Fifty Dollar Marriage Bond signed  6 Mar 1899

             By W. L. Endsley, Principal and H. B. Leonard, Surety

License:

Solemnized by

Date:

W. L. Endsley was Walton L. Endsley (1877-1960), son of John F. Endsley & wife, Sallie Adney Coffey.  Ethel Chapman was the daughter of James William Chapman & wife, Martha Emmaline Pylant.

The license and the section where the minister or justice of the peace certifies that he has solemnized the rite of matrimony is blank.  Usually, if the marriage did not take place, the court clerks would eventually  write some type of notation in this block such as "no return" or "not returned."  In this instance other evidence indicates that the marriage did take place:  Ethel's tombstone at Round Hill Cemetery is reported to read:  "Ethel

                                                      Wife of W. L. Endsley

                                                      Born July 21, 1879  Died August 10, 1901

 (Tombstone Inscriptions of Marshall County, Tennessee, Vol. I  compiled by Ralph D. Whitesell, Lewisburg, Tennessee, 1968; Published by Miss Deane Porch, Nashville, Tennessee).   They are enumerated in the 1900 Census of Marshall County, Tenn. as husband and wife and son, Willie, 1-month old.  (NA Series T663, Roll 1587, page 57.

Submitted by Dick Wood, Dec 2004