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Chris, I was told an interesting story about why the first marriage register in Russell County is missing. DON'T KNOW if it is true, but it makes all kinds of sense. If you will notice, that is the ONLY record missing in Russell County. No land records are missing, no wills are missing, no court orders are missing, etc., etc...just that book of marriages.
Anyhow, the story I was told was that a wealthy land baron left his wife for "sweet young thing", and married her. He had a son by her, but soon became tired of her, and went back to his first family. He died, and sweet young thing showed up for her son's share of the land. Now the family just couldn't allow her to prove that this child was legitimate, or else they would lose some of that precious land. A family member who worked at the courthouse took the marriage records to prevent that from happening.
If you go in there and ask about that marriage book, you will be told it was destroyed in a fire. If this story is true, then that is likely also true.
IS THE STORY TRUE????? Who knows?? But if so, the person (whose last name I was told, but won't state here) who burned that book is without doubt the greatest enemy of genealogical research that we have ever known!
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