Kate’s Notes: The St. Louis Christian Advocate was published weekly by a committee of ministers for the Methodist Episcopal Church South in St. Louis. As this was a denomination-affiliated publication, notices of deaths, births, marriages, etc. of Methodist families from around the country might be published in their weekly.

Marriage Annoucement from the St. Louis Christian Advocate, March 3, 1869:

GILLILAND -- BRUNDIGE. --  February 18, 1869, at the M. E. Church, South, in Gallatin, Mo., by Rev. J. Y. Blakey, Mr. Christopher C. Gilliland to Miss Jennie Brundige, all of Daviess county, Mo.