Decatur County GA Marriages, Doctor "Doc" Lovinsky Lambert to 
Catharine Spooner, 19 Nov 1857

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The marriage record for Doctor "Doc" Lovinsky Lambert and 
Catherine Spooner is as below.  His first name was 
Doctor.  He also used the initials D. L. Lambert but he was 
not known as Lovinsky.  His parents were Lovinsky Lambert and 
Martha Payne Lambert.

Georgia
Decatur County

To any minister of the gospel, judge, justice of the interior 
court, or justice of the peace.  You are hereby authorized to 
join Dock Lovinsky Lambert and Catharine Spooner in the holy 
bonds of matrimony, according to the laws of said state; and 
for so doing, this shall be your sufficient license.

Given under my hand this 16th day of November 1857.

J. Lass, Ordinary

Georgia
Decatur County

I do certify that Dock Lovinsky Lambert and Miss Catharine 
Spooner were duly joined in matrimony by me, this nineteenth 
day of November 1857.

William Chester, J. P.
__________

--Proof of marriage by D.L. Lambert.    Affidavit taken by 
T.B. Maxwell, Ordinary, Decatur County, Bainbridge, GA:  
"Personally appeared before me D.L. Lambert who after being 
duly sworn on oath says that the applicant for pension, 
Mrs.. M.E. Bates*, who was the widow of John Pope is my sister, 
and that said Mrs. M.E. Bates prior to her marriage to Tillman 
Bates deceased was married to John Pope at my father's house in 
Decatur County GA on October 31st 1860.  I was present at the 
marriage, and saw the same married by Rev. J. Martin.  And they 
lived as husband and wife until his death in battle July 1864."  
Sworn and subscribed Sept. 30, 1910.

*Her maiden name was Martha Elizabeth Lambert.

Submitted by Bonnie Toole, a Spooner/Lambert descendant