Atascosa Co., TX: Marriage License - Joseph Walker & Amanda M. Yarbrough 1864

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No 117
License of Joseph Walker and Amanda M. Yarberry

State of Texas
County of Atascosa.
				To any person legally authorized
to celebrate the rites of Matrimony.
Be it known that I the undersigned clerk of the
county court of said county do hereby license any person
authorized by law to join the Bonds of Matrimony
Joseph Walker and Amanda M. Yarberry both of
Frio County and of the age prescribed by law.
And of this license make due return within sixty
days.
Witness my hand and the seal of the county
court of said county at office in Pleasanton this
2nd day of May A. D. 1864.
			Charles Smidt Clk. C. C. A. C.


This is to certify that I joined together in the
bonds of wedlock Mr. Joseph Walker and Miss
Amanda M. Yarberry of Frio county the persons
described on the reverse here of at the residence of
Mr. Fist in Atascosa County on the 2nd day of May
A. D. 1864.
			E. O'Brion, Chief Justice, A. C.

In presence of
Miss Fist
and
Simon Fist


Joseph Walker, son of Martha Tetford & James Walker, was 
born on June 30, 1818 in Chester Co., SC and died on
June 18, 1888, buried in Hill Top Cemetery, Tilden,
McMullen Co., TX.  Joseph Walker's first wife was Mary
Walker.  They had seven known children before her death
in 1860.  Mary was buried in the Old Pleasanton Cemetery,
Pleasanton, Atascosa Co., TX.

Amanda Arminda "Mandy" Yarbrough, daughter of John Swanson &
Francis Yarbrough, was born on October 20, 1846 in Houston 
Co., TX and died on December 20, 1929 in Christine, Atascosa
Co., TX, buried Hill Top Cemetery, McMullen Co., TX.

Circa 1856 the Yarbrough family had come to the newly formed 
Atascosa County from Gonzales.  By 1860 the family was living
in the newly formed McMullen County, having settled on a bend
in the Frio River.  Yarbrough's bend was the first settlement
of the county.  It was here that in 1862 that Swanson Yarbroug
was laid to rest in the family cemetery and in 1868 his wife 
Francis was also buried there.  In 1982 the cemetery was 
relocated to Hill Top Cemetery in Tilden to make way for Choke 
Canyon Reservoir.