"The marriage and death notices contained in this volume have been abstracted from the newspaper holdings of the Genealogy Department of the Washington Memorial Library in Macon, Georgia. These particular abstracts are taken from the Georgia Messenger (in publication at Macon, Georgia, 1825-April 8, 1847) and the Georgia Journal and Messenger (in publication at Macon, Georgia, April 15, 1847, through November 13, 1869). Both were weekly publications. The time span covered by these abstracts represents the inclusive publications dates"--Introd., p. iii.