I searched and searched for the marriage record for my 2nd great-grandmother Margaret Elizabeth “Lizzie” Summers and her second husband William “Bill” Green Smith. I even scoured the marriage records in the Waverly, Humphreys County, Tennessee library at one point and just could not find a record for them. I had nearly given up, thinking perhaps they were just common-law married, until I decided to give it one more shot. Ta-da! Lizzie and Bill married in Humphreys County, Tennessee on August 6, 1911. Eddie Lea Barnes signed the marriage record with Bill. Eddie was Lizzie’s uncle, the husband of her half-aunt Zana Frances Proctor.
