____________________________________________________________________________ State of Arkansas, County of Hempstead, I, Lewis Allen, and acting and duly commissioned Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Hempstead in the State of Arkansas, do hereby certify and make known, that on Sunday evening the 17th day of September A.D. 1848, I solemnized the rights (rites) of Matrimony between Mr. Austin Simpson of Pike County, aged about twenty-five years to Miss Harriett F. Calhoun of Hempstead County aged about nineteen years, in the County of Hempstead in the State of Arkansas. Given under my hand this 19th day of September A.D. 1848. Lewis Allen, J.P. Filed and Recorded September 19, A.D. 1848. Teste: S.T. Sanders, Clerk and Exofficio Recorder. ____________________________________________________________________________ Hempstead County, Arkansas Marriage Book A, page 51. ____________________________________________________________________________ HTML file and design by David Kelley, 1997. All rights reserved.