These are in date order not alphabetical order surname first. Do a ctl+f for quick search by both bride and groom's names. Use first name as well in case surname is spelled differently.
This compilation was done by Lucille Zoulek as a huge project of indexing the entire newspapers from 1858 to at least mid 1970's. To say this was an enormous undertaking is putting it mildly. Anyone who researches in this county locally has used the indexes and most any researcher has used them for anyone out-of-town. We thank her immensely!
The Grand Traverse county data for 1885-1895 which has been extracted for comparison with the newspaper index.
Items that have yellow highlights are potential errors
Index lists groom, bride and newspaper date
| Newspaper Index 1885-1895 | ||
| Groom | Bride | Date |
| 1885 | ||
| Murray, James | Sinclair, Aggie | 22 Jan pg 5 |
| Bartley, Isaiah | Canute, Carrie | 5 Mar pg 5 |
| Mackey, Frank | Hopkins, Allie | 5 Mar pg 5 |
| Kellogg, Herbert | Harper, Emogene | 5 Mar pg 5 |
| Perkins, William | Dye, Cora | 19 Mar pg 4 |
| Silver, Charles | Vescelius, Ellen | 19 Mar pg 4 |
| Griffith, Marion | Alexander, Jessie | 4 Jun |
| Helmer, Jonas | Chapman, Mrs. Hannah | 4 Jun |
| Orton, Clinton | Gibson, Fanny | 18 Jun |
| Loudon, Robert | Pohoral, Clara | 2 Jul pg 5 |
| Balch, Herbert | Chandler, Clara | 2 Jul pg 5 |
| Porter, Riley | Hall, Clara | 9 Jul pg 5 |
| Edgecomb, Charles | Hammond, Callie | 9 Jul pg 5 |
| Brett, Cyrus | Day, Rose | 9 Jul pg 5 |
| Edmonds, George | Kingsley, Carrie | 9 Jul pg 5 |
| Chalfont, Prof. W. A. | Leach, Hattie | 9 Jul pg 5 |
| Mills, George | Cross, Mrs. J. A. | 20 Aug pg 4 |
| Kennedy, John | Dolph, Cora | 27 Aug pg 4 |
| Bigelow, A. H. | Goss, Helen | 3 Sep pg 4 |
| Platt, William | Ottinger, Mary | 3 Sep pg 4 |
| Sheridan, Lyman | Kelderhouse, Mrs. Frances | 3 Sep pg 4 |
| Heinforth/Heimforth, Phillip | Cooper, Lillie | 10 Sep pg 4 |
| Froman, Charles | Armstrong, Minnie | 17 Sep pg 5 |
| Lozier, Silas | Crooks, Mattie | 24 Sep pg 4 |
| Taylor, Ernest | Peart, Minnie | 24 Sep pg 4 |
| Nickerson, William | Hunt, Mrs. Mary | 1 Oct pg 5 |
| Holcomb, Daniel | White, Laury | 1 Oct pg 5 |
| Atwood, Miles | Thompson, Hattie | 8 Oct pg 4 |
| Dyke, Avend | West, Harriet | 8 Oct pg 4 |
| Tindall, Rev. R. W. | Rike, Drucey | 22 Oct |
| Edwards, Jacob | Passmore, Lizzie | 29 Oct pg 4 |
| Askam, Oliver (M. D.) | Hogan, Effie | 5 Nov pg 4 |
| Bregg, George | Remington, Mrs. A. L. | 19 Nov pg 5 |
| Miner, Reuben | Walling, May | 26 Nov pg 4 |
| Hall, Leslie | Germaine, Lola | 10 Dec pg 5 |
| Skeels, Alfred | Buffin, Lizzie | 17 Dec pg 4 |
| Whybrew, John | Barnum, Ona | 17 Dec pg 4 |
| Johnson, James | Patterson, Jennie | 17 Dec pg 4 |
| Hoffman, Lewis | Barton, Jennie | 24 Dec pg 4 |
| 1886 | ||
| Birdsey, Erastus | Favreau, Emma | 7 Jan pg 4 |
| Beitner, George | Tager, Mary | 7 Jan pg 4 |
| Holliday, Franklin | Jengling*, Kalie | 21 Jan pg 4 |
| Maxbauer, Joseph | Konechny, Johanna | 25 Feb pg 4 |
| Stanek, Joseph | Koziek, Katie | 25 Feb pg 4 |
| Kelley, Thomas | Cain, Alwilda | 18 Feb pg 5 |
| Robertson, Joseph | Shaw, Suzie | 18 Feb pg 5 |
| Ward, Clarence | Tappan, Ella May | 18 Feb pg 5 |
| Gray, James | Holland, Margaret | 11 Feb pg 4 |
| Brown, William | Cutler, Alice | 11 Feb pg 4 |
| Dobson, William | Defer, Jennie | 28 Jan pg 4 |
| Koch, Irwin | Call, Emily | 28 Jan pg 4 |
| Kitchen, William | Dohm, Sophroina | 28 Jan pg 4 |
| Bate, WIlliam | Gray, Lizzie | 5 Apr pg 5 |
| Young, William | Cummings, Genevera | 6 May pg 4 |
| Lee, Frank | Oviatt, Pearl | 13 May pg 4 |
| Taggart, Prof. Isaac | Pierce, Ella | 20 May pg 4 |
| Hodges, Samuel | Mills, Lena | 3 Jun pg 4 |
| Richardson, John | Luther, Bertha | 17 Jun pg 4 |
| Jenne, George | Pennington, Inez | 17 Jun pg 4 |
| Baker, A. D. | Day, Sybil | 1 Jul pg 5 |
| Smith, Wheaton | Downs, Bell | 8 Jul pg 4 |
| Kent, Charles | Ball, Susan | 14 Jul pg 4 |
| Harris, Patrick | Bailey, Martha | 14 Jul pg 4 |
| Kingsley, Delos | Jeffrey, Isabelle | 22 Jul pg 4 |
| Fowler, Alonze | Call, Nettie | 19 Aug pg 4 |
| Richpaw, Martin | Ward, Lena | 19 Aug pg 4 |
| Hopkins, William | Fluger, Sarah | 2 Sep pg 4 |
| McKeage, Ad | Wolf, Martha | 9 Sep pg 5 |
| Langworthy, S. D. | Marallis, Mrs. | 19 Sep pg 4 |
| Zeigler, George | Deering, Mrs. J. | 14 Oct pg 4 |
| Merrill, John | Merrill, Lillie | 4 Nov pg 4 |
| Dewing, Preston | Spafford, Maggie | 4 Nov pg 4 |
| Winchcomb, John | Murphy, Margaret | 25 Nov pg 4 |
| Camerson, Angus | ?? ?? | 2 Dec pg 4 |
| Amtbuckler, Frank | Lautner, Mary | 9 Dec pg 5 |
| Young, Alva | Potter, Retta | 9 Dec pg 5 |
| Johnson, William | Pierce, Mary | 16 Dec pg 4 |
| Johnson, Laurence | Dohm, Mary | 23 Dec pg 4 |
| 1887 | ||
| Thorn, Archie | Kent, Alla | 10 Mar pg 4 |
| Sinclair, Adelbert | Place, Carrie | 10 Mar pg 4 |
| Treddell, John | Cooper, Della | 10 Mar pg 4 |
| Potter, L. | Haman, Mrs. Harriet | 10 Mar pg 4 |
| Yingling, Louis | Sparling, Dorah | 10 Mar pg 4 |
| White, Andrew | Ferris, Clara | 31 Mar pg 4 |
| Francisco, Albert | Holmes, Ola | 31 Mary pg 4 |
| McHattie, Alexander | Huxley, Cora | 7 Apr pg 4 |
| Chahoc, ?? | Neil, Amelia | 21 Apr pg 5 |
| Miller, Ward | Cate, Rebecca | 21 Apr pg 5 |
| Davis, Charles | Baker, Anna | 28 Apr pg 4 |
| Broomhead, John | Dunbar, Lydia | 28 Apr pg 4 |
| Heron, WIlliam | Tripp, Adda | 5 May pg 4 |
| Lautner, Stephen | Amtsbuchler, Mary | 5 May pg 4 |
| Eller, George | Umlor, Salome | 26 May pg 5 |
| Starr, George | McCully, Ida | 2 Jun pg 4 |
| Greenman, Arthur | Dewey, Lavina | 2 Jun pg 4 |
| Guck, E. J. | Maltby, Mrs. S. G. | 9 Jun pg 5 |
| Gerndt, Frederick | Kilwy, Annette | 7 Jul pg 4 |
| Thomas, Frank | Weaver, Edith | 28 Jul pg 5 |
| Jansen, Harman | Iwarsen, Ainette | 28 Jul pg 5 |
| Leatherland, William | Keyesk, Edith | 25 Aug pg 4 |
| Hagar, Gardner | Place, Estella | 25 Aug pg 4 |
| Conant, Lewis | Harrison, Ellen | 25 Aug pg 4 |
| Richardson, D. A. | Freeman, Lenora | 19 Sep pg 4 |
| Mullen, Frank | Hill, Martha | 19 Sep pg 4 |
| McManus, J. Angus | Bartak, Mathilda | 19 Sep pg 4 |
| Herald, William | Vinton, Inez | 6 Oct pg 4 |
| Byers, Henry | Misener, Carlotta | 20 Oct pg 4 |
| Weiland, Charles | Smith, Ella | 3 Nov pg 5 |
| Olson, August | Neilson, Christina | 3 Nov pg 5 |
| Taylor, Forrest | Beach, Lillian | 10 Nov |
| Moore, Edward | Thacker, Emma | 24 Nov pg 5 |
| Parker, Sidney | Storrs, Laura | 1 Dec pg 4 |
| Sundin, M. | Sundberg, Miss C. | 1 Dec pg 4 |
| Van Brocklin, Charles | Howard, Belle | 15 Dec pg 4 |
| Sye, Michael | Evans, Emma | 15 Dec pg 5 |
| Beardsley, Frank | Manville, Eliza | 29 Dec pg 5 |
| Millard, Wilbur | Stata, Hattie | 29 Dec pg 5 |
| Green, Bertrand | Armstrong, Mary Ellen | 29 Dec pg 5 |
| Wright, William | East, Bertha | 29 Dec pg 5 |
| Gagnon, Joseph | Mosman, Lena | 29 Dec pg 5 |
| Putnam, Frank | Harrisonn, Jennie | 29 Dec pg 5 |
| 1888 | ||
| Waldruff, Jacob | Chaney, Elizabeth | 3 Feb pg 3 |
| Rhodes, J. M. | Laura, O. | 10 Feb pg 4 |
| Armstrong, James | Sparling, ellen | 24 Feb pg 4 |
| Shugart, Oliver | Hurlbut, Blanche | 24 May pg 4 |
| Allen, Albert | Hunter, Minnie | 24 May pg 4 |
| Thacker, John | Beitner, Anna | 24 May pg 4 |
| Newcomb, Andrew | Churchill, Minnie | 31 May pg 4 |
| Sleight, Charles | Newmarch, Sarah | 28 Jun pg 4 |
| Champion, William | Gibson, Alice | 28 Jun pg 4 |
| Hughes, William | Bartlett, Myrtle | 12 Jul pg 54 |
| Uber, William | ?? ?? | 19 Jul pg 5 |
| Canfield, James | Smedley, Amy | 19 Jul pg 5 |
| Alward, Dion | Bust, Carrie | 19 Jul pg 5 |
| Zimmerman, John | Crain, Emma | 26 Jul pg 5 |
| Saunders, Joseph | Andrews, Hattie | 26 Jul pg 5 |
| Babcock, Charles | Fillacy, Emma | 26 Jul pg 5 |
| Sundin, Ole | Larsen, Huldah | 2 Aug pg 5 |
| Newcomer, William | Smith, Arvilla | 2 Aug pg 5 |
| Lavender, John | Buck, Harriet | 2 Aug pg 5 |
| Dago, George | Russell, Martha | 9 Aug pg 5 |
| Cummings, John | Russell, May | 9 Aug pg 5 |
| Smith, Emery | Williams, Nora | 9 Aug pg 5 |
| Vader, Calvin | Holdsworth, Sarah | 13 Sep pg 5 |
| Tuller, Wilber | Fisher, Ida May | 13 Sep pg 5 |
| Jones Samuel | Hopkins, Elizabeth | 13 Sep pg 5 |
| Price, Emmet | Davis, Eleanor | 13 Sep pg 5 |
| Nephew, George | Ellis, Emma | 1 Nov pg 4 |
| Cornell, Isaac | Wait, Hattie | 13 Dec pg 4 |
| 1889 | ||
| Steele, William | Sanborn, Sarah | 10 Jan pg 4 |
| Holley, Benjamin | Brown, Alice | 10 Jan pg 4 |
| Metcalf, Rev. Arthur | Miller, Ida | 24 Jan pg 5 |
| Elliott, Chester | Hunt, Verna | 4 Apr pg 5 |
| Way, George | Dean, Minnie | 9 May pg 5 |
| Sutton, Charles | Auton, Clara | 30 May pg 5 |
| Nelson, Horatio | Curtis, Alma | 30 May pg 5 |
| Knapp, Frank | Wiles, Lottie | 30 May pg 5 |
| WIlhelm, Anthony | Evans, Fanny | 13 Jun pg 4 |
| Brigham, Glen | Coates, Kate | 13 Jun pg 4 |
| Taney, George | Edwards, SArah | 20 Jun |
| Anderson, Chris | Olsen, Randy | 20 Jun |
| Crego, William | Weaver, Cora | 8 Aug pg 5 |
| Krabs, Archie | Woodrow, Myrta | 15 Aug pg 4 |
| Baker, Jesse | Manigold, Elizabeth | 15 Aug pg 4 |
| Isgrig, Jacob | Kelly, Cora | 22 Aug pg 4 |
| Stites, Burlington | Wells, Minnie | 12 Sep pg 4** |
| Shepard, Milton | Valentine, Eniah | 12 Sep pg 4 |
| Artlip, Leonard | Killaker, Louisa | 3 Oct pg 4 |
| Kyselka, John | Dratchka, Frances | 14 Nov pg 4 |
| Kyselka, Anthony | Kuchery, Annie | 14 Nov pg 4 |
| McLachlin, Duncan | Chase, Daisy | 14 Nov pg 4 |
| East, Carl | Saunders, May | 14 Nov pg 4 |
| Traas, Tony | Welt, Jennie | 14 Nov pg 4 |
| Egbert, Commodore | Rehder, Phillipina | 21 Nov pg 4 |
| Getche, Frederick | Schadler, Catherine | 21 Nov pg 4 |
| Cook, Robert | Ricket, Lillian | 28 Nov pg 4 |
| Corning, Marcellus | Pringle, Elizabeth | 19 Dec pg 4 |
| Taylor, Eugene | Nickerson, Rosa | 19 Dec pg 4 |
| Cromwell, Oliver | Roberts, Lucretia | 19 Dec pg 4 |
| 1890 | ||
| Hardendorf, George | Feifield, Dollie | 9 Jan pg 5 |
| Beacon, Maid | Leiter, Olive | 20 Jan pg 4 |
| Stinson, Ambrose | Nickerson, Eunice | 10 Apr pg 4 |
| Myers, Frederic | Chambers, Alice | 24 Apr pg 4 |
| Gilroy, Paul | Bennett, Josephine | 24 Apr pg 4 |
| Belknap, Byron | Mead, Nettie | 22 May pg 4 |
| Mathews, John | Leidig, Sarah | 22 May pg 4 |
| Schofield, Lyman | Daw, Flora | 22 May pg 4 |
| Davis, Alfred | Wall, Agnes | 10 Jul pg 4 |
| Craine, Harvey | Alexander, Mary | 10 Jul pg 4 |
| McBride, Amos | Perkins, Laura | 10 Jul pg 4 |
| Cobb, David | Cary, Delilah | 10 Jul pg 4 |
| Thomas, Joseph | Tomkins, Lizzie | 17 Jul pg 5 |
| Martin, George | Swanson, Huldah | 21 Aug pg 4 |
| Wilson, Albertus | Muckler, Anna | 25 Sep pg 4 |
| Steward, George | Griffith, Jennie | 25 Sep pg 4 |
| Way, James | Arnold, Mary | 25 Sep pg 4 |
| Baynton, Austin | Bailey, Nellie | 16 Oct pg 4 |
| Dean, John | Russell, Ida | 18 Dec pg 4 |
| Nickerson, Dewey | Pratt, Mrs. Kittie | 25 Dec pg 4 |
| 1891 | ||
| Ramsey, Adelbert | Hopkins, Bertha | 1 Jan pg 4 |
| Phelps, Charles | Ladd, Cora | 1 Jan pg 4 |
| Wilcox, Walter | Gardner, Mrs. A. | 5 Feb pg 4 |
| Flansburg, Manasseh | Hopkins, Estella | 5 Feb pg 4 |
| Church, Fred | Cary, Rose | 21 Feb pg 4 |
| Jeffrey, Albert | Kingsley, Effie | 7 May pg 5 |
| Pratt, William | Marshall, Mollie | 7 May pg 5 |
| Newstead, William | Hall, Lottie | 28 May pg 4 |
| Gearing, Henry | Riehl, Mary | 28 May pg 4 |
| Lutman, Francis | Felt, Carrie | 28 May pg 4 |
| Cook, George | Beeman, Lucian | 11 Jun pg 4 |
| LaPointe, Charles | Soule, Susie Belle | 11 Jun pg 5 |
| Gibbs, James | Robertson, Isabella | 18 Jun pg 4 |
| Barney, Robert | Fuller, Mathilda | 25 Jun pg 5 |
| Cook, W. J. | Lindley, Olive | 2 Jul pg 5 |
| Cochlin, Rev. D. | Greeno, Anna | 2 Jul pg 5 |
| Iles, Samuel | Kafka, Carrie | 2 Jul pg 5 |
| Webster, Charles | Goddard, Jessie | 16 Jul pg 4 |
| Davidson, Frances | Hinds, Carrie | 24 Sep pg 4 |
| Blood, I | Wilsey, Carrie | 24 Sep pg 4 |
| Copeland, George | Woodin, Mattie | 1 Oct pg 4 |
| Craker, George | Middleton, Hattie | 1 Oct pg 5 |
| Stadelbauer, Robert | Anderson, Alida | 5 Nov pg 7 |
| Johnson, William | Eaton, Emma | 21 Dec pg 4 |
| Johnson, Nils | Johnson, Rachael | 21 Dec pg 4 |
| 1892 | ||
| Barnes, Montia | Murray, Cora | 7 Jan pg 4 |
| Cox, Arthur | Beers, Laura | 7 Jan pg 4 |
| Chamberlin, S. B. | Ramsdell, Alice | 19 May pg 5 |
| Rose, David | Mason, Annie | 11 Aug pg 4 |
| Tenser, John | Hoxie, Elizabeth | 11 Aug pg 4 |
| Sherman, James | Holdsworth, Fannie | 27 Oct pg 4 |
| Beach, Seymour | Howard, Libbie | 10 Nov pg 4 |
| Sturdevant, Walter | Hande, Etta | 10 Nov |
| Thompkins, Gary | Kilmury, Elizabeth | 1 Dec pg 6 |
| Bisard, Henry | Hicks, Josephine | 15 Dec pg 4 |
| Harrison, Thomas | Griffith, Violet | 15 Dec pg 4 |
| 1893 | ||
| Stevens, Lyman | Bennett, Beulah | 12 Jan pg 5 |
| Belnap, Frank | Roseberry, Rosalie | 12 Jan pg 5 |
| Monroe, Fred | Crain, Mary | 26 Jan pg 4 |
| Shorter, Daniel | Snow, Clara | 26 Jan pg 4 |
| McDonald, Allen | Gunton, Jessie | 16 Feb pg 5 |
| Harren, George | Weese, Rachel | 30 Mar pg 4 |
| Woolf, Enos | Garey, Eva | 13 Apr pg 4 |
| Putnam, Claude | Hill, Mabel | 27 Jul pg 4 |
| Tisdale, John | Hulet, Ella | 2 Nov pg 4 |
| Andrews, Henry | Harris, Etta | 16 Nov pg 5 |
| Lowes, Fred | Dago, Mary | 23 Nov pg 4 |
| Skinner, Lewis | Gilroy, Mary | 21 Dec pg 4 |
| Wilson, Benjamin | Tafferer, Elizabeth | 28 Dec pg 4 |
| 1894 | ||
| Johnson, Guy | Crawford, Cora | 5 Apr pg 5 |
| Miser, Joseph | Thiel, Carrie | 12 Apr pg 5 |
| Burfield, John | Swan, Mary | 17 May pg 5 |
| Miller, Philip | Saxton, Rebecca | 14 May pg 4 |
| Sayers, Frank | Buys, Ida | 21 May pg 4 |
| Smith, Wm. | Hurd, Cynthia | 21 May pg 4 |
| Henderson, Prof . T. J. | Tripp, Alta | 5 Jul pg 4 |
| Hunt, Charles | Nephew, Mary | 13 Sep pg 4 |
| Dow, Elmer | Doe, Alice | 20 Sep pg 4 |
| Layhn, Herbert | Seegmiller, Mary | 20 Sep pg 4 |
| Kidder, William | Beardsley, Edity | 15 Nov pg 4 |
| Smith, James | Eddy, Nettie | 20 Dec pg 4 |
| 1895 | ||
| Butler, Charles | Evans, Netta | 28 Mar pg 4 |
| Reich, Frank | Dickinson, Lucia | 20 Jun pg 4 |
| Hitchcock, Earl | Cressy, O. Auretta | 20 Jun pg 4 |
| Quackenbush, Ernest | Phillips, Florence | 15 Aug pg 4 |
| Hawley, William | Lanpka | 10 Oct pg 4 |
| Cater, Frank | Jacobson, Emma | 12 Dec pg 4 |
*Possibly, Yingling
** Original indexer has note: misnumbered p. 8 follows. What I assume is: Page 8 follows page 4 in the newspapers?
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