Spalding-Meriwether-Coweta County GaArchives Marriages..... Esther Viola SWYGERT - Azmon Benson SHACKLEFORD, JR. March 14 1897 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Valerie (Johnson) Freeman vcjfreeman@aol.com and Dawn Hill dawnlfdp@yahoo.com June 17, 2003, 9:54 am Spalding Co., Court of the Ordinary, Marriage Book D (1891-1904), page 144 (GADH Drawer 163, Roll 79) GEORGIA, SPALDING COUNTY To any Judge or Justice of the Peace, or Minister of the Gospel, or other Person authorized to Perform the Marriage Ceremony: You are Hereby Authorized to Join A. B. Shackelford Jr. and Miss Esther Swaygard in the HOLY STATE OF MATRIMONY, according to the Constitution and Laws of this State, and this shall be your License for so doing; and you are required to return to me this License, together with the accompanying Certificate, Properly certified to as to the facts, and date of said Marriage. Given under my hand and official signature, this 10th day of March 1897, J. A. Drewry, Ordinary ================================================= I HEARBY CERTIFY, That A. B. Shackelford Jr. and Miss Esther Swaygard were this day duly joined in Matrimony by me, This 14th day of March 1897 Recorded: March 16th 1897, J. A. Drewry, Ordinary T. W. O. Kelley, M. G. Additional Comments: Descendants of Esther Viola Swygert Esther Viola Swygert b: 23 Aug 1873 in Georgia (most likely Meriwether Co.); d: 6 May 1958 Burial: Hanleighter Methodist Church/Oak Hill Cemetery - Griffin, Spalding Co., Georgia Father: Morgan Govan Swygert Mother: Martha "Dora" Madora Nixon *1st Husband of Esther Viola Swygert: +Azmon Benson Shackleford, Jr. b: 30 Jul 1870 in Georgia m: 14 Mar 1897 in Spalding Co., Georgia d: 24 Apr 1899 Father: Azmon Benson Shackleford Mother: Matilda A. Greene ~~No Children from this Marriage~~ *2nd Husband of Esther Viola Swygert: Rev. John Marshall Crowe b: 1 Sep 1857; m: 29 May 1901 in Coweta Co., Georgia; d: 26 Nov 1932 Burial: Hanleighter Methodist Church/Oak Hill Cemetery - Griffin, Spalding Co., Georgia Father: Mother: Known Children of Esther Swygert & John Crowe: Chandler Crowe b: 25 Apr 1910; d: 20 Sep 1933 Burial: Hanleighter Methodist Church/Oak Hill Cemetery - Griffin, Spalding Co., Georgia ----------------------- Notes for Esther Swygert: Admitted to Mt. Pilgrim Lutheran church (Haralson, Coweta Co., GA) on 6 Aug. 1884 by confirmation. Removed from membership on 19 Oct 1889 (same day as her sisters) by letter; per Mt. Lutheran Pilgrim Church records, transcribed in "Norma's Coweta County Chatter" June 1978-Sept 1981. (My thoughts: Esther's step-father, Thomas Burdette, died 9 Oct 1899. In the 1900 census, Esther's mother, Martha (Nixon) Swygert Burdette, is living next door to her mother's father, Harrison H. Nixon. In the 1910 census, Martha is living with her father. Did the girls join Bethel Methodist, the church of their Grandfather, Harrison H. Nixon???) * 1880 Census - Meriwether Co., District #705; pg. 231C S-263; ED 82; sheet 23, line 47 Morgan SWYGART Self M Male W 35 SC Farmer SC SC Dora SWYGART Wife M Female W 26 GA Keeping House GA GA Rosa SWYGART Dau S Female W 7 GA At School SC GA Ester SWYGART Dau S Female W 5 GA At Home SC GA Lula SWYGART Dau S Female W 3 GA At Home SC GA * 1900 Census - Coweta Co., GA; Haralson Dist ED 26; Sheet 4B, line #63; 6 June 1900 Enumerated as: SHACKLEFORD, Esther, b Aug 1874, age 25, widowed, no children, occupation: dressmaker living w/mother Martha (Nixon) (Swygert) Burdette and her half-siblings, Lottie, Thomas, & Lucius Burdette. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb