And why have I never been able to find the marriage license of my great-grandfather Lon W. Colvert to his first wife?
Because: Cottrell.
Here is the entry in an Iredell County Indexed Register of Marriages. Ancestry.com rides to the rescue again.
And why have I never been able to find the marriage license of my great-grandfather Lon W. Colvert to his first wife?
Because: Cottrell.
Here is the entry in an Iredell County Indexed Register of Marriages. Ancestry.com rides to the rescue again.
Scuffalong: Genealogy. 
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Oh I hate when that happens. I couldn’t find my grandfather for the longest time in the 1940 census because of how the name was taken down. His last name was Murrell and they had Berel. Ugh!