COHABITATION RECORDS BUNCOMBE COUNTY NC<\/p>\n
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Cohabitation records are post slavery recording of marriages of former slaves and freedmen.\u00a0 Most of these have not survived.\u00a0 There are none for Henderson or Transylvania County.\u00a0 There is a small number in Buncombe.\u00a0 These are located at NC State Archives in\u00a0the “Road Docket” for Buncombe, in the back of the book, upside down. The dates are recording dates, not marriage dates.
\nAustin Smith was married to Frances Williams\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 June 1863
\nSam Jones to Louisa Murphy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 22 May 1866
\nHardy McDaniel and wife Jane (freedman) married 35 years\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 25 Apr 1866
\nKitt Stepp & Sarah (freedman) married 28 years\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 28 Ap 1866
\nButtler Burgin & Ruth married 15 years\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2 June 1866
\nRobert Gash & Nancy married 36 years\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 30 Aug 1866<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
COHABITATION RECORDS BUNCOMBE COUNTY NC Cohabitation records are post slavery recording of marriages of former slaves and freedmen.\u00a0 Most of these have not survived.\u00a0 There are none for Henderson or Transylvania County.\u00a0 There is a small number in Buncombe.\u00a0 These are located at NC State Archives in\u00a0the “Road Docket” for Buncombe, in the back Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7477],"tags":[23854,23855,6174,5098,23853,6894,23856,4863,23818,6820],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-burgin","tag-gash","tag-jones","tag-marriages","tag-mcdaniel","tag-murphy","tag-slave","tag-smith","tag-stepp","tag-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}