McDowell County courthouse reports nine marriage licenses issued
Nine marriage licenses were issued at the McDowell County courthouse in Welch, including David Lee Church and Misty Dawn Ratcliff.
The McDowell County courthouse in Welch issued nine marriage licenses in the July 20-26 record, adding a fresh set of family names to the county ledger. The licenses named David Lee Church and Misty Dawn Ratcliff; Nicholas Alexander Williams and Samantha Faye Christian; Justin Allen Rotenberry and Jessica Ann Adams; Jonathan Kurt Lester and Courtney Brooke Dotson; James Brandon Proffitt and Regina Elizabeth Batts; William Terry Addair and Theresa Ann Leedle; Matthew Scott Hicks and Tiffany Faith Fortune; Harold Mickey Fowler Jr. and Jessica Renee Stanley; and Joseph Walter Trent and Laticia Joann T...
Marriage licenses are one of the courthouse records that matter beyond the ceremony itself because they create a legal paper trail for changing names, families and household records. In McDowell County, where attorneys, genealogists, property owners and local historians all use courthouse notices to track identity and family changes, those weekly entries remain among the clearest public records produced in the county seat.
The pattern was not isolated. Another McDowell County courthouse item dated July 20 listed 10 more marriages, including Elzie Branham Jr. and Eva Sue Birchfield, Jacob Andrew Scrotsky and Isabella Nikole Mitchell, Daniel Andy Powell and Brandi Nicole Goodman, Ace Creed Hughes and Robin Kaye Bolen, Daniel Lee Smith and Courtney Danielle Atwell, Robert Lee Burchett and Carmen Joanne Baker, Andy Wayne Sparks and Geraldine Nicole Rutter, Robert James Bolt Jr. and Linda Mae Bolt, James Dewayne Muncy and Jeannie Elizabeth Brooks, and Tony Cline and Holly Renee Cua Tumax.
Together, the two July listings show a steady stream of marriage filings moving through the courthouse in Welch. Similar county courthouse roundups in nearby Lincoln and Wyoming counties have also carried marriage, death and land-transfer notices, underscoring how these weekly records function as a public ledger of life events and legal changes across local West Virginia communities.
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