Source Information

Ancestry.com. Mason County, Kentucky, Marriage Index, 1804-1860 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2001.
Original data:

  • Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather, comp. Marriage Records of Mason County, Kentucky 1804-11 Volume II. Chillicothe, MO: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, circa 1965.

  • Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather, comp. Marriage Records of Mason County, Kentucky Volume III 1814-20. Chillicothe, MO: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, circa 1965.

  • Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather, comp. Mason County, Kentucky Marriage Records III A 1820-33. Chillicothe, MO: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, circa 1965.

  • Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather, comp. Marriage Records of Mason County, Kentucky Volume IV 1834-44. Chillicothe, MO: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, circa 1965.

  • Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather, comp. Marriage Records of Mason County, Kentucky 1845-55 Volume V. Chillicothe, MO: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, circa 1965.

  • Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather, comp. Marriage Records of Mason County, Kentucky 1856-60 Volume VI. Chillicothe, MO: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, circa 1965.

  • About Mason County, Kentucky, Marriage Index, 1804-1860

    This collection of marriages adds to the growing number of databases in the "Ellsberry Collection." The database was compiled by long-time researcher, school teacher, and professional genealogist Elizabeth Ellsberry. Marriage records contain the names of both spouses and date of marriage.

    Ms. Ellsberry began genealogical publication in 1958, when she published her own family history, The Warrens and You. In researching her own family, she found that libraries needed additional information from cemetery records, wills, land records, probate records, census records, etc., to help people with their family history. Ellsberry decided that she wanted to help by publishing books that contained solid genealogical data. She taught school for 34 years, but on weekends and summer vacation, she would travel around to different courthouses and cemeteries, recording the information she found. She also corresponded with several researchers and helped them in their research. Ellsberry self-published more than 300 books, and most of them are available for sale.

    Most of the compilation of these books took place between 1958 and into the 1970s, so the recorded information should include the cemetery and/or courthouse records of that time period.

    Address:
    Ms. Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
    P.O. Box 206
    Chillicothe, MO 64601