Title: Benton County Mississippi Marriage Index 1871-1899
Description: Hunting For Bears Genealogy Society collects and maintains large databases of early (predominantly pre 1900) marriage records from all fifty states. We are currently processing these records and will have them on line as soon as they are ready.

We do two things with these records:
One, we publish these records in County Marriage Record Books, (over 2,500 to date) and on CDs. We no longer publish on microfiche but have a fairly complete inventory of our collection up to 1980.

Two, surname searches of these large computer databases have been available to individuals since the late 1960s via the U. S. Postal Service and now e-mail.
We search our marriage indexes of on a state by state basis and provide the results via e-mail or computer printout.

The Hunting For Bears marriage data collection as of about 1980, covering 16 states, was bundled with Family Tree Maker(c) and sold in the tens of thousands and was crucial in making FTM(c) the most popular genealogical software in the world.

The same collection was included in Ancestry's(c) initial data searches, playing a significant role in its rise to the world's premier genealogy data search engine.

That was the 1980 collection, the 2013 collection dwarfs it in comparison. This book is part of that 2013 collection. It is maintained in a data base structure to provide the highest information density. Each marriage is contained in one line. Each party in the union is included in the alphabetical listing. Using the records in a database format and listing both participants in the alphabetical sort was so unique in 1960 that the U.S. Government has granted Hunting For Bears a (c)copyright on the collection in both electronic and print format.

Several things we are considering in the immediate future are; e-books to buy, loan or free downloads, books available through instant publication, and books on line.

Oh, the name and logo, Russell, as Nick was called in his youth, loved puns. The newspaper genealogy column that he began writing in 1951, Hunting Your Forbearers, quickly became Hunting For Bears and the bear and hunter logo was created.


Early Benton Co MS Marriages 1871-1899 compiled by Dorothy L Murray 
©Copyright 2006 by HUNTING FOR BEARS, Genealogical Society and Library 

Date	Spouse 1	Spouse 2
26 Aug 1885	ABBOT, Alice	GLENN, Thomas
30 Jan 1878	ABERNATHEY, Calvin	BOGIE, Eliza
11 Nov 1886	ABERNATHEY, Hamitt	ADKINS, Manuel
27 Aug 1885	ABERNATHY, Manerva	SMITH, Cyrus
21 Mar 1878	ABSTON, Charles	FORD, Rose
11 Oct 1892	ABSTON, Fannie	LIPFORD, Isaac
24 Dec 1895	ABSTON, Fannie	THOMAS, Jim
07 Feb 1889	ABSTON, Fed	MCKAY, Annie
27 Dec 1890	ABSTON, N C	ELLIOTT, Jack
06 Jan 1898	ABSTON, Packston	MULLINS, Maggie
17 Jan 1871	ABSTON, Sarah O	HELLUMS, John R
09 Jan 1872	ADAMS, Francis E	LEOPARD, T Z
01 Oct 1880	ADAMS, George	GOTTIER, Adelia
20 Dec 1875	ADAMS, Wiley V	FREEMAN, Lugenia
03 Mar 1882	ADKINS, Evaline	HUMPHREYS, John
04 Mar 1896	ADKINS, Frank	THOMAS, Cynthia
30 Jun 1874	ADKINS, Henry	SUGGS, Princess
11 Nov 1886	ADKINS, Manuel	ABERNATHEY, Hamitt
31 Jan 1889	ADKINS, Mattie	BOGIE, Lewis
09 Dec 1890	ADKINS, Sarah	CAMPBELL, Jon
05 Mar 1872	ADLEY, Elizabeth	FLINT, Robert
22 Jun 1899	AGNEW, Elliotte	BAIRD, Alice
13 Jan 1888	AGNEW, Marshall	ROSS, Ann
29 Oct 1879	AIKEN, John R	HAWKINS, E J miss
09 Jan 1893	AIKIN, R T	SCOTT, T E
15 Jun 1898	AKIN, Ora	LUNA, Dave
22 Feb 1897	AKIN, Virgia	JACKSON, W R
16 Jan 1888	AKIN, W B	DAVIS, Ruthie Ann
23 Jan 1871	AKINS, Henry	SANDERS, Evaline
24 Nov 1884	AKINS, Loula J	SEAWRIGHT, C T
24 Dec 1884	ALBERSON, C J	GRAVES, M C
27 Aug 1885	ALBERSON, J F	MCGAUPHY, Lizzie
05 Nov 1892	ALBERSON, J S	URSSEY, T L
01 Jan 1890	ALBERSON, John F	ALBERSON, Sallie
29 Jul 1896	ALBERSON, Katie	BOOKOUT, James D
27 Feb 1896	ALBERSON, Maggie	HUBBARD, J L
25 Dec 1889	ALBERSON, S E	BEATY, T W
01 Jan 1890	ALBERSON, Sallie	ALBERSON, John F
04 Oct 1880	ALBERSON, St K	RITCHEY, Laura
03 Aug 1887	ALBERSON, W A	CUNNINGHAM, Mattie
07 Sep 1880	ALBERSON, W A	FARNER, Elizabeth
25 Feb 1889	ALBERSON, W A	ORMAN, Margaret
23 Dec 1893	ALBERSON, Willie J	CRAWFORD, T F
13 Jan 1873	ALBINSON, O J miss	FIVRASH, James
23 Aug 1892	ALBSTON, Ford	CLAYTON, J P
21 Nov 1871	ALDRICK, Elizabeth R	SHOUP, Samuel
16 Dec 1887	ALDRICK, Marvis	TRENDWELL, Eliza A

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Subjects: hfbms, hfb, hfbmiss, Mississippi Marriage Records, MS Marriage Records, Marriage Records, Mississippi Genealogy, MS Genealogy, Mississippi Marriages, MS Marriages, Mississippi vital records, MS vital records, vital records, MS Archives, Southern Heritage, Mississippi Ancestry, MS Ancestry, Mississippi Archives, Marriage Records of Mississippi, Marriage Records of MS, Mississippi Grooms, Mississippi Brides, MS Grooms, MS Brides
Places: hfbmsben, Benton County Mississippi, Benton County, Mississippi, Benton Co, Ms, Benton County MS, Benton Co MS, Benton MS, Benton Miss, Miss, Benton County Miss, Benton Co Miss, Benton County Marriage Records, Benton Co Marriage Records, Benton MS Marriage Records, Benton MS Marriages, Benton MS vital records, Benton MS vitals, Benton County (Miss.)
Time periods: 1871-1899, 1700s, 1800s, 19th Century, pre 1900, Early, pre modern, Early Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth Century