State of Illinois,)
Wayne County)
 I, J. W. Barnhill, Clerk of the County Court in and for Said County, hereby certify that Mr. Hays Burroughs and Miss Nancy Baker were joined in Matrimony on the 21st day of March 1854 by Samuel L. Branch a minister of the Gospel in said County, as appears on the recors in my office.
                 In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the official seal of said County, at Fairfield, Illinois, this the 31st day of October 1864.