BIBB COUNTY, GA - MARRIAGES Miss Jennie Andrews and Mr. Alexander
McGregor, of Macon, Ga  February 27,
1883

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"Extracts from the Hunterdon County Democrat, one of the
principle newspaper of Hunterdon County, New Jersey. The
extracts are from 1837-1900 copies of the paper." "February 27,
1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 28 1883: Jenny and Sandy Eighteen
years ago (1865) Miss Jennie Andrews and Mr. Alexander
McGregor, of Macon, Ga., were engaged to be married. But they
had a lovers' tiff and separated. She married Mr. Charles Ross
and went to Texas, and he married, it matters not whom. In five
years Ross died and the widow returned to Macon, and after some
time married Mr. Lavarre. Seven years later Lavarre was killed.
In the meantime McGregor had become a widower. Within the past
month he chanced to meet in the street of Macon the sweetheart
of eighteen years ago, and though they had not met for years
the recognition was mutual. The old flame was rekindled and on
Sunday morning of last week the Rev. J. W. Burke was called
upon to perform the marriage ceremony. "

NOTES: I'm trying to find my g-g-grandmother Jennie Andrews
[marriages: 1) Ross 2) Lavarre] after her 3rd marriage to
Alexander S. McGregor, son of Alexander McGregor and his 2nd
wife. Born in SC and raised in Macon, Bibb Co. GA, the daughter
of a southern Unitarian Universalist preacher and the
granddaughter of a Pittsburgh Presbyterian minister, Jennie's
marriage notice strangely is in a NJ newspaper [from the web]. 
theauchs@mail.earthlink.net 

Additional notes: Jennifer Braswell
I have found that he (Rev J.W. Burke) must have been Methodist
(at that time called Methodist Episcopal). [Jen] located
minutes form a convention of ME ministers during the Civil War
era and he was mentioned several times.

He was also in partnership with Samuel Boykin, a leading
Baptist in Macon who himself was the editor-in-chief of the
Christian Index, the Georgia Baptist newspaper, which is still
running. The firm was called Burke & Boykin.

After their printing business was destroyed in the Civil War,
it was reorganized , and called the J.W. Burke & Co. and one of
its first publications was the Wesleyan Christian Advocate,
which was an ME weekly newspaper.

From this [Jen] can safely gather that he was a Methodist
minister. [Jen] doesn't have the name of a church that he
pastored, but [said to] keep in mind that Macon was also the
home of Georgia Female College (now Wesleyan College) which was
the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to
women., So there were many Methodist ministers in the area who
may not have been full-time church pastors.