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| Marriage license for William Stinnett and Fannie Kirkham |
William Stinnett was the oldest known Stinnett sibling in my family. He married Fannie Kirkham in Harrison, Boone County, Arkansas in September 1881. According to the license William was a resident of Yellville, Marion County at the time and Fannie was a resident of Harrison. Unlike the marriage documents for his brothers Tom and John, there was no signed security bond; perhaps the laws were different in these neighboring counties.
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| 1900 census |
The license is the earliest record I have found for both William and Fannie and it is the only reference I have seen that places William in Yellville. By 1900 William is a farmer living with his family in Harrison. He and Fannie have four children - Effie, Carrie, Sherman and Nettie. They moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma sometime before the 1910 census.
Their youngest daughter Geneva was born in Harrison in 1903 and their oldest daughter Effie was married to James Sturgeon in Muskogee in 1907. By 1910 only the two youngest daughters are in the household.
