Re: Nancy LORD / Elijah FARMER Wilkinson County, GA

John, this link will take you to some search results that may give you some clues.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=Search&includedb=&lang=en&ti=&surname=lord&stype=Exact&given=nancy&bplace=&byear=&brange=0&dplace=&dyear=&drange=0&mplace=&myear=&mrange=0&father=&mother=&spouse=farmer&skipdb=&period=All&submit.x=Searchhttp://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=Search&includedb=&lang=en&ti=&surname=lord&stype=Exact&given=nancy&bplace=&byear=&brange=0&dplace=&dyear=&drange=0&mplace=&myear=&mrange=0&father=&mother=&spouse=farmer&skipdb=&period=All&submit.x=Search

They are 3 family trees from people who have (for whatever reason) put Elijah Farmer and Nancy Lord together, and various other snippets of info are there.

These are not documents, but they provide some hints for you. Use what they have recorded, and see if you can confirm it with facts.

How? If it was me, I would use the search and documents at familysearch.com to try to find a DOCUMENT that confirms the marriage. Assuming you can do so, then use the same search to try to find the same people in the same area in the census every 10 years. If they are your great grandparents, then you will find them having a child with the right name, right location, etc to match your grandparent's facts.

Play with the search engine there. They have lots of records, and it's free to use.

If you can verify, you then will know you have the right names for great-grandparents. Going all the way back to 1850, every 10 years (except for 1890) you have almost everyone listed by name. If you can figure out which is your family, and follow them thru the census, you can get a great start on your tree.

From what someone wrote on one of those trees I linked, F I Farmer was Fern Ivey Farmer. "Ivey" (or the longer version, "Iverson") crops up regularly in the Lord family names descending from the Wilkinson Co GA Lords.