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Genealogy Girl Talks.
I love stumbling into a document I wasn’t even looking for.
This
marriage bond for Nancy Jollett and Hiram Garnes surfaced during a research
trip to the Rockingham County, Virginia court house. My goal that day was to find
Davis documents that would satisfy the DAR standards for proving lineage to a
Revolutionary War patriot. But heck, I was there anyway, so why not check the
index for Jolletts too.
And there it was: a marriage bond for Nancy Jollett. Who? The two Nancy
Jolletts I knew of were Jollett by virtue of marriage. Nancy Walker married my
4X great-grandfather James Jollett and Nancy Glass married their son Simeon
Jollett. So who was this young Nancy Jollett getting married in Rockingham?
One clue was the bondsman George Sampson. George was married to Drada
Jollett, daughter of James and Nancy Walker Jollett. Perhaps Nancy was a sister
to Drada. If so, then there is another question to answer: why was she not
living in Greene County with her parents?
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