I am combining the prompts from the 4th and 5th. They ask if you have marriage certificates and then stories about how the people met and later became married.
I have found a few citations of marriage records but have seen very few, while I am grateful for the indexers who put the information out there I can't wait until they get around to attaching images. Although I guess I can always pay for the actual documents but who wants to do that?
Regardless, this is one of my favorite stories. My grandma, LaVon Taysom, was the oldest of a lot of kids. When she was a teenager her parents sent her and two of her sisters to live with their grandparents (Hammers) in Pleasant View, UT. While there, they would attend the local dances and she eventually met Marshall Maycock. Now being proper, as they dated, her sisters went with them as chaperones. Eventually LaVon and Marshall decided to get married. She was only 17 so on their marriage certificate her birthday says 10 Jul 1908!! Her real birthday is August 10, 1908. They were married July 12, 1927. I love that they couldn't wait even one more month to be married. That's all I know or can recollect about their getting together. I am sure there is more to it than that but I will leave that to others to fill in.
Family legend has it that Amos Maycock and Mary Humphries met while he was part of the rescuers of the Willie Handcart Company in which she was traveling. Eventually the two were married. Now whether they knew each other from the tragic events of the Willie Handcart Company or just from both their families settling in Pleasant View, I don't think anyone knows for sure. It would make a great story though if the handcart story was true.
I have found a few citations of marriage records but have seen very few, while I am grateful for the indexers who put the information out there I can't wait until they get around to attaching images. Although I guess I can always pay for the actual documents but who wants to do that?
Regardless, this is one of my favorite stories. My grandma, LaVon Taysom, was the oldest of a lot of kids. When she was a teenager her parents sent her and two of her sisters to live with their grandparents (Hammers) in Pleasant View, UT. While there, they would attend the local dances and she eventually met Marshall Maycock. Now being proper, as they dated, her sisters went with them as chaperones. Eventually LaVon and Marshall decided to get married. She was only 17 so on their marriage certificate her birthday says 10 Jul 1908!! Her real birthday is August 10, 1908. They were married July 12, 1927. I love that they couldn't wait even one more month to be married. That's all I know or can recollect about their getting together. I am sure there is more to it than that but I will leave that to others to fill in.
Family legend has it that Amos Maycock and Mary Humphries met while he was part of the rescuers of the Willie Handcart Company in which she was traveling. Eventually the two were married. Now whether they knew each other from the tragic events of the Willie Handcart Company or just from both their families settling in Pleasant View, I don't think anyone knows for sure. It would make a great story though if the handcart story was true.
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