{"id":2443,"date":"2016-04-02T23:56:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T23:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2016-04-02T23:56:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T23:56:41","slug":"an-1878-marriage-of-two-women-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2443","title":{"rendered":"An 1878 Marriage of Two Women&#8211;Sort Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Marriage of a Woman to a Woman<\/h2>\n<p>The Brownville, Nebraska,\u00a0<em>Nebraska Advertiser<\/em> of 20 June 1878 contains an item from the\u00a0<em>Tuscarora\u00a0<\/em>[Nevada]\u00a0<em>Times-Review<\/em> that mentions the marriage of a Marancy Hughes and a Samuel M. Pollard that the newspaper suggests\u00a0took place in Nevada in 1878.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out that Samuel M. Pollard was\u00a0not a\u00a0Samuel after all.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel A. Pollard was actually Sarah Pollard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/women-marrying.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2444\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2444 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/women-marrying.jpg\" alt=\"women-marrying\" width=\"648\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/women-marrying.jpg 648w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/women-marrying-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two marriages in Elko County, Nevada for Marcency Hughes appear in\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em>&#8216;s\u00a0&#8220;Nevada Marriages 1860-1987:&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/nevadamarriages.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2445\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2445 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/nevadamarriages.jpg\" alt=\"nevadamarriages\" width=\"594\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/nevadamarriages.jpg 594w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/nevadamarriages-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One is for her marriage to Pollard and one is for her marriage to Linebarger. At some point the Linebargers moved to Montana. Tuscarora, Nevada, is a ghost town today but was apparently a boom town during the era of these marriages.<\/p>\n<p>I only stumbled upon this reference while searching for references to my aunt Emmar (Sargent) Pollard who lived in Nebraska in the 1870-1880 era.<\/p>\n<p>Were I researching this Sarah, I&#8217;d probably start with court records in Elko County to see if there was an annulment of the marriage. I&#8217;m also curious if any later annotation was made on the marriage record between Pollard and Hughes.<\/p>\n<p>This serves as another reminder that items can be printed in newspapers thousands of miles away from where they actually took place.<\/p>\n<p>You\u00a0never know when your relative may have been involved in something that generated widespread attention. Sometimes the most scandalous of stories aren&#8217;t passed down for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage of a Woman to a Woman The Brownville, Nebraska,\u00a0Nebraska Advertiser of 20 June 1878 contains an item from the\u00a0Tuscarora\u00a0[Nevada]\u00a0Times-Review that mentions the marriage of a Marancy Hughes and a Samuel M. Pollard that the newspaper suggests\u00a0took place in Nevada in 1878. It turned out that Samuel M. Pollard was\u00a0not a\u00a0Samuel after all. Samuel A. 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