In some cases, the bride or groom could not be matched to anyone in the census, but in other cases, there was more than one possible candidate. Information from the Will Books could sometimes be correlated with the marriage records. For example, Lyman B. McCrary married Martha Martin on 28 Feb 1856. There were three Martha Martins of marriageable age, but one of them was named in the will of her father as Martha McCrary. From these examples it can be seen that using different kinds of records can augment the value of any one of them.
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