Grayson County TXGenWeb

Marriage

Grayson County marriage records were recorded as early as 1845. Some earlier marriages can be found in Fannin County, Texas records and in the State Archives' Republic of Texas records. Marriage records are kept in the County Clerks office.

Grayson County people went to Bryan Co., Oklahoma, just north of the Texas/Oklahoma border to marry. Due to the fact that there was not a a waiting period requirement to obtain a marriage license, Texas residents went into Oklahoma. Couples married on the bridges between Oklahoma and Texas, which were under the state of Oklahoma marriage law.

Grayson County Divorces
Grayson County Marriages
Grayson County Marriages, 1846 - 1877

16 Wives
Bargain Day Weddings, Elder J.H. Baxter
Courtship
Golden Anniversary

Choctaw Nation marrage records - Grooms | Brides

Genealogy Trails History Group - Marriage Notices

Grayson County Divorce Index, 1968-2010

Marriage Certificates available at Cooke Co. Clerk's Office

Texas Marriages, 1837 - 1973 at FamilySearch

Texas Marriages 1837-1977 at FamilySearch Images

Texas County Marriage Records 1837-1965 Images

Texas Marriages 1966-2010 at FamilySearch

Texas Marriages, 1966 - 2010 at FamilySearch

Texas Church Marriages 1839-1982 at FamilySearch

Texas Church Records 1845-1957 at FamilySearch Images

Texas Church Records 1852-1994 at FamilySearch Images

Texas Divorce Index 1968-2010 at FamilySearch

Texas Divorce Records, 1968 - 2011

No One Living Remembers
Dedicated to my great-grandparents -
Albert Goodin Steele (1868-1953) & Mary Ellen Poulston (1875-1949)

I. Family Trees

The whole of the story
is missing;
fading away
from the memories
of the living.

Images on paper are
frequently not found;
do not exist
to jog the memories
of their descendants.

But the scraps of colors and
textures are burnt
in the imaginations
of the ones who
were given the importance to keep.

The smell of the rain
still broods
in the nostrils
of the ones who
were selected to carry on.

Images of a covered carriage
sharpen or fade
with the repetition
of the story
of the wedding that started

Everything we remember for ourselves.

II. The Great-Grandparents’ Wedding Day

The wedding with no photographer
was in late winter or
very early spring of 1895;
we know because
the first baby girl came in the

waning days of that December.

There was a rainstorm,
so we were told,
as they rode to the church;
just enough to soak
every footpath into the chapel.

Were there guests?
No one has ever said
or remembers;
if guests did gather,
they witnessed no formal wedding.

Just the couple
in the covered carriage
and the minister on the porch
attended this country church rite;
directly after a sudden Spring shower in 1895.

Her Sir Galahad risked the muddy puddles
to retrieve the man
who intoned the words
they would repeat;
vows to last for years and children to come.

And the hem of her pale pink crepe wool suit was saved.

© Toni A Christman 2013. All rights reserved