All marriage records of Hamilton County prior to 1857 were lost to fire or the Civil War. The marriages included in this list were compiled from early newspapers, Chancery Court records, family Bibles and other authentic sources.
The first marriage performed in Hamilton County, for which any record exists, was that of Daniel Ross and Mollie McDonald in 1786. Miss McDonald was the daughter of Captain John McDonald and Anna Shorey McDonald. The next recorded marriage took place at the Mission on the Chickamauga, in the Cherokee Nation on March 22, 1818. Letters and Conversations of the Cherokee Mission, published in Boston in 1830, mentions the marriage of Rev. William Chamberlain, one of the missionaries, to Flora Hoyt. The marriage took place in the Mission Church in the Cherokee Nation and was witnessed by the missionaries and church members. Miss Hoyt was the daughter of Rev. Ard Hoyt.
Daniel Ross – Mollie McDonald – 1786
William Chamberlain – Flora Hoyt – March 22, 1818
Ainsworth E. Blunt – Harriet Ellsworth – November 17, 1822
Sylvester Ellis – Sarah Hoyt – 1822
Henry Rogers and Mariah (Mahala)
Unknown - December 23, 1827
Civil War Pension application. Information provided by
Jennifer Mieirs jenniferhsrn@cablelynx.com
Elnathan Howell Condray – Elizabeth Boydston – November 29, 1831
Robert L Gamble – Betsey Jones – November 8, 1832
Jonathan Jackson – Nancy Rogers – 1833
Anderson Jones – Martha Shelton – 1833
William Parsons – Mary H. Craighead March 11, 1833
Joseph Smith – Mary Kirklin, daughter of Elisha Kirklin – 1833
James Russell – Mary Davis - November 6, 1834
John Anderson (b:8/30/1837)– Jemima Allen (b:12/8/1815;d:12/29/1838) m:October 27, 1835 (Information provided by Susan McNair)
John Barrus – Catherine Bowlin – Widow of Nobel Bowlin – February 25, 1836
Samuel G. Smartt – Mary Ann Kennedy – November 20, 1837
Vredenburg Thompson – Elizabeth Ann Sosses – October 30, 1838
John C. Woodruff – Martha S. Thompson – March 30, 1838
Allen Parker – Dovie Beeson – 1839; Daughter of Solomon & Margaret N. Beeson
John Anderson – Purlymly Luttrell – 1840
William Clark - Sarah McChesney
Berry (Daughter of Mayor James E. Berry)
February 27, 1840
Abasalom Selcer – Arlena E. Scott – Feb 6, 1840 Daughter of Noah Scott
Dr. Beriah Frazier (Mayor of Chattanooga) – Cynthia A Mynatt – April 22, 1841
Joel Rogers - Ary Gibson - August 10, 1841
R. J. Moore – Margaret Jane Pitner – 1842
Robert Coulter – America Clift - Dec. 14, 1843 Daughter of Col. William Clift
Anderson Jones – Martha K. Johnston – 1843
Sanford Ritchie – Mrs. William Hale (Elizabeth Francis) – 1843
Benjamin Chandler – Catherine B. Newell – Nov. 28, 1844
John L. Divine – Elizabeth Williams – 1844 Daughter of Samuel Williams
James Hair – Mary Agnes McRee – 1844
R. H. Hamil – Marcy C. Hixon – Dec. 12, 1844 Daughter of Ephraim Hixon
M. B. Parham – Elizabeth W. Kennedy – July 25, 1844 Daughter of Allen Kennedy
Bartholomew Rogers - Rebecca Gibson - December 23, 1844
Simeon P. Runyan – Nancy C. Birger – July 22, 1844
James A. Whiteside – Harriett L. Straw Feb. 1, 1844
Samuel Williams – Keturah Taylor – 1844
Nimrod Ford – Delphia Ann Patterson Oct. 16, 1847
Thomas Orville Foust – Elizabeth Harriett Bevans – 1847
Dr. Joseph S. Gillespie – Penelope Porter Whiteside Feb. 10, 1848 Daughter of Col. James A Whiteside
Richard Henderson – Isabella Woods Henderson – 1847
Joseph L. Morrison – Cynthia Jane Kennedy – May 24, 1848
Joseph William Clift – Mary Jane McKensie – Dec. 27, 1849
T. W. Newman – Vesta Adaline Kennedy – Sept. 26, 1849
Josiah Varnell - Caroline Shropshire - August 23, 1850 in Harrison, TN Daughter of John Jackson Shropshire
Joshua Beck – Margaret Hixon – July 31, 1850
Eli Crabtree – Sarah Reynolds – May 30, 1850
Jesse Green – Rebecca Ferguson – June 5, 1850
William S Killgore - Celia Adams - January 5, 1850 (Information from Civil War pension application. Courtesy Jamie Clark wandarita@sbcglobal.net)
Alexander R. Pearson – Keturah Bassett – 1850
W. C. Thatcher – Nancy Young Patterson – April 18, 1850
Charles W. Vinson – Elizabeth Yarnell Copeland July 21, 1850
John B. Whiteside – Adelaide L. Hooke – Jan. 1, 1850 Daughter of Judge Robert M. Hooke
Jackson B. Yarnell – Sophronia Thompson Igou – Jan. 16, 1850 Daughter of Gen. Samuel Igou
Thomas R. Roddy – Zerelda Yarnell – April 1851
James C. Childress – Rebecca A. Reynolds – Jan 7, 1852
Daniel Crowley – Lettie M. Burrows – Jan. 25, 1852
Jacob Frist – Mary A. Baldwin – 1852 Daughter of Isaac and Crissa Baldwin
Dr. G. A. Gowan - M. E. McGill (Daughter of John & Elizabeth McGill) - 1852
J. F. Hamil – Rachel Ford – Feb. 1852
John P. Hodges – Sidney Glass – 1852 Daughter of John G. Glass
William Henderson Thomas – Sarah Rebecca Foust – Sept. 16, 1852
John W. Smith – Martha C. Bower – Aug. 2, 1852
Abner C. Carroll – Mollie Williams – 1852 Daughter of Samuel Williams
George Wallace Hunter – Lucila Hines – June 2, 1852
Benjamin F. Tutt – Sarah Elizabeth Rawlings – 1852 Daughter of Daniel Ritchie Rawlings
Robert Newton White - Nancy Cunningham - September 14, 1852
Miller F. Burris – Margaret Montgomery – May 21, 1854 Daughter of George Montgomery
Wescom Hudgins – Rowena Ross Temple – 1854 Daughter of Dr. Frederick Ross, widow of Edward Temple. Son of B. K. Hudgins.
John Carr – Nancy Jane Emery – Nov. 9, 1854
Meigs County. Daughter of
James and Nancy J. Emery of Meigs County Tennessee. Son of William & Sarah
Carr of Sale Creek, Hamilton County Tennessee.
Information provided by Lola L. Allen -
llallen@onramp113.org
J. H. King – Catherine Russell – 1854
George Wesley Lyle – Ann Elizabeth Cravens – Nov. 18, 1854 Daughter of Robert Cravens
Jonathan P. McMillin – Nancy Cravens – 1854 Daughter of Robert Cravens
Phillip M. Roberts – Maria Almeda McRee – June 8, 1854
J. C. Rogers – Mary W. Smith – March 1854 Daughter of Elisha and Nancy Smith
A. J. Thomas – Louisa Gann – 1854; Daughter of Preston and Mary L. Gann
J. J. Jackson – Rebecca Gann – 1855; Daughter of Preston and Mary L. Gann
John C. Roberts – Arabella Pickett June 24, 1855; Daughter of Mrs. Margarett Pickett
William M. McGill - Sarah Hunter November 22, 1855 at her father's home.
Reese Littleton – Margaret E. Walker – May 15, 1856
Pleasant L. Mathews – Margaret Williamson – Oct. 30, 1856
Jefferson Elgin Sawyer – Elizabeth Stringer – 1856 Daughter of William and Elizabeth Smith Stringer
William Wilson Davis - Louisa Stover - Oct. 30, 1856; Daughter of Isaac and Margaret Hoots Stover, at her mother's house in Harrison by Samuel Blair. From pension records of Wilson Davis submitted by Phebe Morgan.
John Franklin Skelton - Sarah Ann
Abigail Bolton - 1865 by J. P. Crane, JP; Chattanooga, TN.
Record from Civil War Pension application. Submitted by Ivelyn Kay
Skelton Blanton
DWilson215@aol.com