Marriage Kenton to Holloway, Franklin Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Betty Jean Weems Neathery

Book B:171, Franklin Parish Clerk of Court 







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State of Louisiana           }    Clerk's Office

Parish of Franklin           }       12th District Court



    To Parsen McLandon a justice of the Peace or any justice of the

Peace for the Parish of Franklin or any legally authorized Minister

of the Gospel for said Parish & State  Greetings:

    You are hereby authorized and empowered to celebrate a Marriage 

between Philip C. Kenton and Miss Eliza J. Holloway of this Parish

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

according to Law.

    Witness my signature and the seal of said Court this Seventh day 

of August AD 1866



                                  /s/ W. H. Prewitt  Clerk



State of Louisiana           }

Parish of Franklin           }    Be it remembered that in pursuance

& by authority of a License from the Office of the Clerk of the 

Twelfth District Court for said Parish & State I A Minister of the

Gospel in and for said Parish proceeded at the Court house of Franklin

Parish in said Parish to celebrate a marriage between Philip C. Kenton

& Miss Eliza J. Holloway of said Parish present & consenting to said

Marriage.

    In Witness Whereof, I have caused the said Parties to sign this act

in presents of witnesses above the age of twenty one years and residing

in said Parish who were present at said Marriage & who sign this act

with the Parties and me of this 7th day of AD 1866.



Witnesses                              /s/ Philip C. Kenton

/s/ John W. Scott                      /s/ Eliza J. Holloway

/s/ J. B. Tucker                       /s/ T. J. Lacy

/s/ Isaac H. Crawford         /s/ T M McLandon





    Know All Men By These Presents,

That we Ph. C. Kenton as principal & Jese B. Tucker as security are

held & firmly bound unto Wm H. Prewitt Clerk of the 12th District 

Court in and for the Parish of Franklin, State of Louisiana, & his

successors in office for the time being in the sum of Five hundred

Dollars and for the true & final payment thereof we bind ourselves,

our heirs, administrators and assigns.  Signed and dated on this

Seventh day of August 1866.

    The Condition of the above obligation is such that whereas a 

Marriage is about to take place between the one bound Ph. C. Kenton

and Miss Eliza J. Holloway and if there shall exist no legal impedi-

ments ___ the Marriage should not take place then the above obligation

to be void; else to remain in full force and virtue according to Law.

Signed & acknowledged before me on the date first above written.

                              /s/ W. H. Prewitt

                                     Clerk





**Submitter's Note: Spelling kept as in the original document.  Also, 

in the return the month is left out as per the original.