Missouri Ex-Slave Resource

Colored Marriages of Saline County, MO, 1865-1870
Three hundred and forty-one African-American couples registered their marriages with the Saline County, MO. courthouse between 1865 and 1870. The Colored Marriages of Saline County, 1865 - 1870 is indexed by both groom and bride, and holds a complete copy of the original 111 page Court Recorder Colored Marriage Record book. The marriage records include the names of enslaved children born of each union. It also provides the researcher with names of black settlements, names of active church leaders that performed the marriages, and twenty historical black cemeteries of Saline County, MO.

Published in 2014, this reference book may be available through your local library or Interlibrary Loan (ILL).

Kathleen Brandt, the founder of a3Genealogy, Kansas City, Mo,- was researching in Saline County, MO when she eyed a registry: Colored Marriages of Saline County, 1865-1870. One of the first rights granted to freed-slaves was to legalize their slave marriages. Information from these records will link the African American researcher to slave ancestors. It will also encourage descendants of Slave Masters to reference one more resource in their research.  

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Colored Marriages 1865-1870

Book $13.50 USD

 

Colored Marriages 1865-1870

E-book $5.00 USD

 

Kathleen Brandt
a3genealogy.com
a3genealogy@gmail.com