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Family   Event:   Donna Colyer Hunt on Internet
     Type:   Alt. Marr. Info
     Date:   1 Sep 1818
     Place:   Grayville, White, Illinois, USA

Family Note:   MARRIAGE: Original note for marriage of Edward Colyer and Jane Thread said Sept. 1818 in Bompus Town near Grayville, Illinois. On FamilySearch there is no Bompus Town but there is a Grayville, Illinois, in White County. Had to make the journey to that settlement in order to find the Justice of the Peace. Ancestry.com's One World Tree gives their marriage date as 1 Sep 1818 in Bonpass, White, Illinois. OneWorldTree on Ancestry.com says Bonpas, Edwards, Illinois, USA, and Janet Flowers in Ancestral File says Edwards, Illinois, USA.
        In ERL's folder A97, "Thread-Colyer Obits", there is the following note: Edward Colyer married Sep 1818 Bonpas Town, near Grayville, Ill., to Jane Thread (License on file at the White Co., Ill., Court House, Carmi, Ill. ERL)

BONPAS: According to the book "Edwards County, Illinois: Past and Present" on page 16, "On the banks of the Wabash River, in the counties of Edwards and White, sits a picturesque, scenic town named Grayville. Here, on the top of a bluff, called Oxford Hill, one can see the valleys, the lowlands, the winding streams, and can look out over the counties of Posey and Gibson in Indiana, and Wabash, Edwards and White in Illinois. The town was named for its founder, James Gray, who platted it in 1826. His brother, Thomas, had established a settlement, near where the Bonpas flows into the Wabash, about 1810. 3(sic) small settlements, Oxford --- on the bluff overlooking the water, Florence --- at the mouth of Bonpas, and the settlement of Bonpas --- farther south, grew into one, and became Grayville."

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