Greene County GaArchives News.....Emily P. Janes Marries James H. Peek April 20 1879
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The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution, April 20 1879
Crawfordville Democrat:  Some weeks ago we announced that Mrs. Emily P. Janes, 
of Cedartown, was on a visit to her relatives and friends in this village and 
vicinity.  We have now to announce that she has resumed the name of her 
girlhood by becoming the wife of James H. Peek, of Greene county.  The 
circumstances of this marriage are extraordinary, and prove the oft-repeated 
assertion that “truth is stranger than fiction.”  Thirty-six years ago James 
H. Peek and William F. Janes were rival suitors for the hand of Miss Emily 
Peek of the county, then a maiden of seventeen, fresh from school.  Both of 
the young men were “worthy and well qualified,” and “long time in even scale 
the battle hung.”  Her father, however, objected to Mr. Peek on the ground of 
their close relationship—they being first cousins through their fathers and 
second cousins through their mother—and she yielding to his preference married 
Mr. Janes.  With him she lived for a third of a century, becoming the mother 
of thirteen children.  One of these, Charles G. Janes is a member of the 
present house of representatives in the Georgia legislature.  In the meantime, 
Mr. Peek submitted to his disappointment and married another cousin, Miss Jane 
Swain, who, after living with him for more than twenty years, died some years 
ago.  Some days since the widower and widow met at the house of Dr. Thomas J. 
Peek and with the promptitude for which these classes are said to be 
proverbial they concluded to consummate the engagement that was interrupted so 
long ago.  On last Thursday week, at the residence of Thomas J. Peek, Rev. J. 
H. Kilpatrick pronounced the words which shall henceforth unite the destinies 
of Mr. James H. Peek and Mrs. Emily P. Janes.  We wish them all manner of 
happiness.

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