Marriage Neathery and Moore, Catahoula Parish, LA
Submitted by Betty Jean Weems Neathery
Date: 26 Aug 2005
Source: Catahoula Parish Marriage Book C:1142 



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State of Louisiana      }    8th District Court
PARISH OF CATAHOULA     }      *CLERK'S OFFICE*

To W. M. Whitehead, J. P. 
    Or any Judge, Justice of the Peace or any legally authorized
Minister of the Gospel, for the Parish of Catahoula - Greeting:

    You are hereby authorized and empowered to celebrate a Marriage
between T. Scott Neathery and Miss Josaphine Moore of this Parish,
and of your doings in the premises, you will make due return to this
office, according to law.
    Witness my signature officially, and Seal of said Court, this
    21st day of August A.D. 1896.
                              /s/ James G. Taliaferro
                                  Clerk 8th District Court



             CERTIFICATE OF CELEBRATION

    Be it remembered that in pursuance and by authority of a License
that issued from the office of the Clerk of the 8th District Court,
for said Parish and State, I W. M. Whitehead a legally authorized
Justice of the Peace in and for said Parish proceeded at E. D. Blythe
in said Parish to celebrate a Marriage between T. Scott Neathery and
Miss Josaphine Moore of said Parish, present and consenting to said
Marriage.
    In Witness Whereof, I have caused the said parties to sign this
act, in the presence of E. D. Blythe, T. S. Neathery, H. J. Baughman
three witnesses, above the age of twenty-one years, and residing in
said Parish, who were present at said Marriage, and who sign this act
with the parties and me the said W. M. Whitehead on this 23rd day of
August A.D. 1896.

Witnesses:                           
/s/ E. D. Blythe                   /s/ T. Scott Neathery
/s/ T. S. Neathery                 /s/ Josaphine Moore
/s/ H. J. Baughman

                            /s/ (blank)


**Submitter's note: The Justice of the Peace did not sign it.  Thomas
Scott Neathery was the son of Tillman Scott Neathery and Mary E.
Lynch.  Not sure of Josaphine's parent's names, but I believe her
father was James or Jim Moore.