Marriage Records, Choat/Thomason, Franklin Parish, LA

Submitted by:Shawn Choat Martin

 July 2001 





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Franklin Parish Marriage Book A, Page 56



STATE OF LOUISIANA--PARISH OF FRANKLIN,

Twelfth District Court--Clerk's Office,



To the Mr. A. Gilly a Justice of the Peace, or any other Justice 

of the Peace for the Parish of Franklin, or any legally authorized 

Minister of the Gospel for said Parish and State--Greeting:



YOU ARE HEREBY AUTHORIZED AND EMPOWERED to celebrate a Marriage 

between William F. Choat and Mrs. S. A. Thomason of this Parish, 

and in your doings in the premises you will make return to this 

office according to law.



Witness my signature of the Seal of said Court this the 28th 

day of June AD eighteen hundred and sixty Four.



L. Tiche

Dy. Clerk





STATE OF LOUISIANA}

PARISH OF FRANKLIN}



BE IT REMEMBERED, That in pursuance and by authority of LICENSE 

that issued from the office of the Clerk of the Twelfth District 

Court for said Parish and State, I, Adolphe Gilly a Justice of 

the Peace in and for said Parish, proceeded, at the residence of 

Mrs. S. A. Thomason in said Parish, to celebrate a MARRIAGE between 

William F. Choat and Mrs. S. A. Thomason of said Parish, present 

and consenting to said Marriage.



IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have caused the said parties to sign this 

ace in presence of W. T. Griffin and Jesse G. Calvert & Isaac W. 

Choat witness 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 said Justice of Peace on this Twenty 

ninth day of June A.D., Eighteen hundred and Sixty four.





WITNESS:

W. T. Griffin                  W. F. Choat

Jeffe G. Calvert               S. A. Thomason

I. W. Choat                    Adolphe Gilly, Justice Peace







Marriage Bond

State of Louisiana

Parish of Franklin

11th District Court, Clerk's Office

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we W. F. Choat as Principal, 

and ________ as his security, are held firmly bound unto the Clerk 

of said Court in the sum of Two hundred & fifty dollars lawful money 

of the United States, to the payment of which well and truly to be 

made, we bind ourselves, our heirs and assigns firmly by these presents.  

Dated this 28th day of June A.D. 1864.



Now the Condition of the above Obligation is such, That, Whereas the above 

bounden W. F. Choat has this day obtained from said Clerk a License to 

Marry Mrs. S. A. Thomason Now should there be no legal impediment to 

the said Marriage, then this Obligation to be null and void, otherwise 

to be and remain in full force and virtue.  This done and signed on 

the date above mentioned.



In presence of             W. F. Choat

                           Asa Hawthorn



NOTE:  The full name of the bride was Samantha Ann Green Thomason