Macoupin County IL Marriages

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Please send pre 1900 Macoupin County marriages to the county coordinator. Please type them and send ON an email or as a word processor attachment.


The Illinois Statewide Searchable Marriage Index (earliest marriages thru 1900) at the Illinois State Archives site. All pre 1900 Macoupin County IL marriages are included in this database.
Marriages listed in a Macoupin County Enquirer paper dated Dec. 26, 1877. According to Marilyn, they are not in the marriages at the state or county level.
Groom's Index- some of our family marriages we have found.
Another list from Beverly Himes Barger in her lines - Powers, Cormack, Smith, Lee and others.
Another list of marriages found at the Macoupin County Courthouse with some details from record. They haven't been incorporated into the following alphabetized list, yet. Most will be in the above Illinois Statewide Searchable Index, tho.
Lookup by a volunteer:
Macoupin Marriages 1885 to 1900
Marriages with more info than an index:
Marriage records at the courthouse 217-854-3214
A Linen Wedding - a December 26, 1877 article in the Macoupin County Enquirer with many names, contributed by Marilyn Galvan

Other links:
Illinois Vital Records Offices Information for all Illinois counties
IRAD has many old Macoupin County Records (Illinois Regional Archives Depository)

Indiana State Library Genealogy Database: Marriages through 1850





December 26, 1877
Macoupin County Enquirer
A Linen Wedding

Gov. and Mrs. PALMER celebrated last Thursday, the 35th anniversary of their wedding day. All of their children and grand-children were present, Dr. and Mrs. J. P. MATTHEWS, Carlinville, Jno. Mayo PALMER and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. S. JANE, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. CRABBE, Miss Jessie PALMER, little Susie and Master Louis PALMER, with Johnnie and Lucy MATTHEWS, John, Robbie and George PALMER, grandchildren. Many presents in linen were given, that being supposed to be the proper material for such an anniversary. After the family dinner there was a general singing and talking and the family chronicles were read. We have been permitted to make a few extracts from it that may interest our readers. With reference back to their wedding it says:

"The attendants were Miss Susan DUGGER (now Mrs. WOODS, of Jacksonville, IL), Jno. A. CHESTNUT of Springfield, Miss Katherine KELLER and Mr. Swade COTTER, of Carlinville, (Miss KELLER afterwards married Mr. COTTER and died many years ago). Major BURKE was there with his young bride, Miss Emily KELLAR, having been married the previous month. Both are now dead. Miss Puss WINCHESTER, Miss Poss WINCHESTER,(afterwards, Mrs. MATTHEWS, of Missouri), Miss Carolina WALKER(now Mrs. Deacon PHELPS of Carlinville), Mrs. Dode HAMILTON(now Mrs. Wm. WEER), Miss Isabella HAMILTON (now Mrs. Robert GLASS of Carlinville), Miss Lib PALMER (now Mrs. Samuel T. MAYO of Carlinville), A. Kim DUBOIS, Dan BAGBY, Dr. WOODS and others of Carlinville's old settlers were there, while the brothers of the bridegroom, Frank and Charlie, came upon horseback from Madison county. Of the friends and relatives present only 16 are now living.

In speaking of the market of those days it was stated that their first cow, a fine one, cost eight dollars, and the best horse in the county could have been bought for fifty or sixty dollars. Corn was worth a picayune a bushel. You could board at the best hotel in town for $1.50. The house in which they began life together stood on the north-west corner of the new courthouse square and for which they paid 3 dollars per month rent. This was the only time they ever lived in a house not their own, with the exception of the four years occupancy of the Governor's mansion at Springfield."

Sent in by Marilyn Trover Galvan myng@earthlink.net
Note: John McAuley PALMER and Malinda Ann NEELEY were married in Carlinville, Macoupin Co, IL, on December 21, 1842. Malinda was born May 5, 1828 in Simpson Co, KY, the daughter of James and Millie NEELEY. Malinda's family moved to Illinois about 1841. John McAuley PALMER was the son of Louis D. PALMER and Ann Hansford TUTT. He was born Sept. 13, 1817 in Eagle Creek, KY. His family moved to Macoupin Co, IL about 1839.