{"id":2120,"date":"2026-01-24T02:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2026-01-24T02:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:14:06","slug":"affidavit-of-marriage-joseph-henson-bell-to-jane-smith-jones-1854","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/affidavit-of-marriage-joseph-henson-bell-to-jane-smith-jones-1854\/","title":{"rendered":"Affidavit of Marriage, Joseph Henson Bell to Jane Smith Jones (1854)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This transcription was submitted to the archived USGenWeb Project by Lillie Ruby in 2001.&nbsp; No copyright infringement is intended.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/files.usgwarchives.net\/tn\/haywood\/vitals\/marriages\/belljones.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to view the original item.<\/p>\n<p>Note:&nbsp; The TNGenWeb Project does not condone use of culturally insensitive language.&nbsp; In the text below, certain antiquated terms may remain for context.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>I was present and witnessed the ceremony when Jane S. Jones was married to Joseph H. Bell July 2, 1854.&nbsp; They lived together until his death Feb 18, 1915.<br \/>\nMrs. R. L. Evans<br \/>\nMis. A. Wainwright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This transcription was submitted to the archived USGenWeb Project by Lillie Ruby in 2001.&nbsp; No copyright infringement is intended.&nbsp; Click here to view the original item. Note:&nbsp; The TNGenWeb Project does not condone use of culturally insensitive language.&nbsp; In the text below, certain antiquated terms may remain for context. I was present and witnessed the ceremony when Jane S. Jones was married to Joseph H. Bell July 2, 1854.&nbsp; They lived together until his death Feb 18, 1915. Mrs. R&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/affidavit-of-marriage-joseph-henson-bell-to-jane-smith-jones-1854\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vital-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2122,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}