Limestone County AlArchives Marriages.....Tanner, Emma - Burkeson, Rev. George March 13 1890
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THE FLORENCE HERALD - Wednesday, March 19, 1890
THE OLD SOUTHERN WAY

A Colored Marriage in a White Man's Parlor at Athens

Athens, Ala., March 13 ---- Special.    At the residence of the bride Wednesday 
at 7:30 p. m. the Rev. GEORGE BURKESON and Miss EMMA TANNER were married by 
Rev. SILAS  LIGGONS, pastor of the colored M. E. Church of this place.  The 
ceremony was performed in
the parlor of Mr. JOHN T. TANNER, the former owner of the bride, in whose 
family she was born and has lived ever since.  The bride and groom followed by 
the guests filed out through the hall to the music of the wedding march on the 
piano by a granddaughter of Mr. TANNER, to their  home on the premises, where 
refreshments were bountifully served and a delightful evening whiled away, such 
as Rev. JOSEPH COOK, of Boston, might have enjoyed, and perhaps Mr. GEORGE W. 
CABLE.  Such occasions were very common before the war and are still kept up in 
many places in the South by those who formerly owned negroes and are to-day 
their best, if not their only friends.


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