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1852 is the earliest date for Giles County marriages that I have ever run across. I have turned up something I didn’t find before. Goodspeed’s history of Giles County has been posted online:
http://www.tngenweb.org/giles/history/gs.html
One thing Goodspeed makes clear is that burning public buildings was a favorite pastime in early Giles County. About the circuit court it says, “From 1810 to 1822 there are no records of this court, they having been destroyed. The records are also missing between 1831 and 1836, between 1848 and 1852, between 1855 and 1858, and there were no courts between 1860 and 1865, but since the last date they are complete.”
The account makes no mention of other county records, but I am afraid we have to conclude that they are in similar shape.
The marriage I had hoped to find is of Sarah Tennessee Hale (various spellings of the surname) and James A. Turner. It would have been in the late 1840’s or early 1850’s. Her family was of Giles County, but his was of Williamson County, and by 1840 his family was down in Yalobusha County, Mississippi, so we don’t know how they came to meet and marry. Her name as our ancestor is preserved by tradition as “Tennessee Hale.” In truth, we don’t know that the Tennessee Hale in question was this one, but we can’t turn up any other. Descendants of this woman’s siblings have a record of this marriage, but without a date, and we are afraid it was reconstructed from census records and is thus just a guess.
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