Marriage of Riley Britton & Julia Ann Strong - 1840, Crawford County, Missouri

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Riley Britton (1814-1873)
- son of James Brittain (b. 1769 Georgia) & Frances "Frankey" Pound (b. 1779 Virginia)
Julia Ann Strong (1824-1898)
- parents unknown, but she was half Cherokee according to a document dictated by her son's 2nd wife

Riley and Julia were married by a Justice of the Peace in Crawford County, Missouri 8 Oct 1840. The marriage was recorded 9 Oct 1840.

Marriage of Paralee Britton & Elbert Botner - 1902, Carroll County, Arkansas

Source - Paralee Britton Botner Shared by a family member

Source - Paralee Britton Botner Shared by a family member

Paralee Britton (1880-1963)

- daughter of Louis Cass Britton (b. 1851 Missouri) & Hannah Catherine Odell (b. 1849 Missouri)

Elberta Nuten Botner (1885-1965)

- son of William Botner (b. 1850 Tennessee) & Rachell Bull (b. 1856 Arkansas)

Marriage License 8 Dec 1902 - Carroll County, Arkansas:

Paralee Britton (22) of Baxter, Stone County, Missouri

Elbert Botner (20) of Nauvoo, Stone County, Missouri

Certificate of Marriage 10 Dec 1902

Certificate of Record filed 29 Jan 1903

- Recorded in Marriage Record, Eastern Dist. Carroll County, Book F on page 416
- Housed in the Carroll County Courthouse in Berryville

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Marriage of Ike Britton and Lizzie Lightle - 1893, Carroll County, Arkansas

Shared by Peggy Boone

Shared by Peggy Boone

William Isaac "Ike" Britton was born 28 May 1872 in Golden, White River Township, Barry County, Missouri to Louis Cass Britton and Hannah Catherine Odell. He married Elizabeth Aletha "Lizzie" Lightle, daughter of Henry Lightle and Nancy Lucinda Brewer, 7 Mar 1893 in Berryville, Carroll County, Arkansas. Both Ike and Lizzie were of Baxter, Stone County, Missouri (just across the state line). Lizzie endured smallpox and also had severe lung problems. She died at the age of only 58 in Kim, Las Animas County, Colorado 13 Jul 1932. Ike never remarried, and died 1 Sep 1953 in Kim. Both were buried in the Kim Cemetery.

Bond 6 Mar 1893 - Carroll County, Arkansas
W I Britton and G W Bonham for $100
(George Washington Bonham had married Lizzie's sister, Merrietta, the year before.)

License 6 Mar 1893 - Carroll County, Arkansas
W I Britton (21) and Lizzie A Lightel (19), both of Baxter, Stone County, Missouri

Certificate of Marriage 7 Mar 1893 - Carroll County, Arkansas
L A Brigman M G (minister of the Gospel)

Certificate of Record filed 28 Apr 1893 - Carroll County, Arkansas
Marriage Book D, page 423

The first would be the original. The second is a copy typed up in Berryville over a hundred years later, 17 Mar 2004, and was probably requested by a relative.

William Isaac "Ike" Britton Shared by Adwyna Jackson

Elizabeth Aletha "Lizzie" Lightle Shared by Ellen Britton

Marriage of Abraham Odle and Cynthia Ann Smith - 1840, Polk Co, Missouri

Abraham Odle/Odell was born 26 May 1814 in White County, Tennessee to Enoch Odell and Catherine Pryor. He married Cynthia Ann Smith, a young woman from Illinois, in Polk County, Missouri 19 Jan 1840. He died 30 Apr 1899 in Randolph County, Arkansas and she passed on sometime after 1900, likely in the vicinity of Elm Store Township, Randolph County, Arkansas, where she is found living that year, with the family of her daughter, Sarah.

Marriage of Abraham Odle and Cynthia Smith, 1840
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Marriage of Enoch Odle to Catharine Pryor - 1799, Greene County, Tennessee

Enoch Odle/Odell was born 19 Mar 1776 in the Shenandoah Valley of Colonial Virginia to Samuel Odell and Elizabeth Job. Enoch's father is believed to have been one of the first settlers of the Cosby Creek Valley in the 1780's, an area that lies against the mountain range that became the western border of North Carolina and the eastern border of Tennessee. The region was originally a part of North Carolina, but later became Greene County, Tennessee. It was here that the famous frontiersman, Davy Crockett, was born in 1786, around the time that Samuel Odell arrived. 

Enoch married Catherine Pryor, likely a daughter of Joseph Pryor, 22 Aug 1799 in Greene County, Tennessee. Enoch later served in the War of 1812 with Andrew Jackson. He moved to White County, near Green Spring on the Caney Fork of the Cumberland River, possibly on bounty land given to him after the war. Enoch eventually moved their family to Macoupin County, Illinois and later to Wright County, Missouri.

Marriage of Enoch Odle and Catharine Pryor, 1799
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Marriage Certificate of Cub and Ellen Britton 1930

Cub, Ellen and Violet Britton
ca. 1931 in Colorado
Courtesy of Ellen Britton

Clarence Custer "Cub" Britton, son of William Isaac "Ike" Britton and Elizabeth Aletha "Lizzie" Lightle, married Ellen Lovicy Waters, daughter of Harry Lee Waters and Fannie Reno, 16 Apr 1930 in Kim Colorado. The officiator was Ellen's father's brother, Victor Lyman Waters, also known as Uncle Vic, who was a Justice of the Peace.

I don't know if a wedding picture exists, but below is a photo of them, taken about a year after their marriage. I would guess that it is also one of the few, of not the only, photo of their first child, Violet Lorraine, who died as a baby of a very severe flu.