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From: Joy Weaver <>
Subject: Civil War Era Remarriage Question
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:11:29 -0400

Does anyone have any knowledge of what would have been required in order
for a woman whose husband disappeared in the Civil War to remarry? I
think the second marriage occurred in Orange County, NY. A family Bible
says the date was 1868 and that the first husband, who enlisted in 1861
or 1862 was never heard of after 1864. Would there be a record
somewhere declaring him dead so she could remarry? (I'm hoping that
something like that exists and would have more information about the
first husband, my husband's gggf, than I've found so far).

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