The 1850 U.S. census form has a column “Married within the year.” The instructions to enumerators were to put a mark in that column beside the husband if a couple was married within the year prior to the enumeration date (June 1, 1850). However, enumerators are people, and the enumerator in the 10th Civil District in Carter County, Tennessee, wrote the marriage year of EVERY couple! What a delightful find!
Here’s a page showing Mr. & Mrs. James Peters were marred in 1834 and Mr. & Mrs. Prestley (Presley) Wilson were married in 1837.
Source:
1850 United States Federal Census, Census Place: District 10, Carter, Tennessee; Roll: M432_873; Page: 229A; Image: 455; online publication Ancestry.com - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data - Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls).
