WILLARD WATSON - JENETT DAVIS

I generally limit my purchases to photos, as a relative's face is so precious to someone. But one day I came across this Marriage Certificate and decided to add it to my project. The paper is thin and fragile, and it is quite remarkable that it has lasted this long. But the print is easily legible.

In its entirety, it reads:

Know All Men by These Presents, That by virtue of a license issued from the Probate Court of Ashtabula County, dated June 29th, 1858, the marriage contract between WILLARD WATSON and JENETT DAVIS was legally solemnized by the undersigned at JOHN CONKLIN's in Harpersfield Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio, on the 30th day of June in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Eight. Given under my hand, this 30 day of June 1858. WILLIAM NELSON, Justice of the Peace.


UPDATE - Thanks go out to Michelle Doutrich for adding the following valuable information:

According to the 1860 census, Willard and Jenett were living in Saybrook (Ashtabula County) with their one year old daughter, Celestine. He is 37, born in NY. She is 23, born in PA. I 1870, Celestine is 11 and they are living in Iowa.

By 1880 they are in Bedford, MI, Celestine is not listed (most likely married) and Jenett and Willard have 3 other daughters. Daughter Josephine marries William Wood in Michigan in 1901. Celestine marries William Evans (from death cert) and dies in June 1928. Daughter Carrie marries Abram Huftile and dies in 1927 of liver cancer (in Michigan).

Toddler Frank Watson died in Bedford, MI in September 1877 age 2 yrs, 1 m, 10 days.