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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:07:00 LCL
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- From: KitchenRN@SSD0.LAAFB.AF.MIL
- Subject: Alabama Justices of the Peace
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- My ancestor, John B YEARGAIN, was a Justice of the Peace and performed
- several marriages in De Kalb County, Alabama (in the area that is now Etowah
- County) prior to the Civil War. Can anyone tell me if there is any
- information as to how he attained this position? Did he run for office, or
- was he appointed? If the latter, who would have appointed him? Would there
- be any archives as to why he was chosen, when, etc.? I wrote to the Alabama
- State Archives, asking if they had any such records, but received no reply.
-
- Rick Kitchen
- kitchenrn@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
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