Live Oak Co. TX: Marriage License - Lorenzo Dow Yarbrough & Nancy White 1863 This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Renee Pierce Smelley Updated: 10/28/2004 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm **************************************************** Marriage License of Live Oak County State of Texas County of Live Oak To any regularly ordained Minister of the Gospel, Judge of the district Court, Chief Justice of the County Court or Justice of the Peace Greeting You are hereby authorized to unite in the bonds of Matrimony Lorenzo Dow Yarbrough and Nancy White agreeable to the Laws of this State, and of this license make due return within sixty days as the Law directs - Given under my hand and the seal of the County Court of said County at Oakville this 27th day of November AD 1863 S Mapes Clerk C C LO C pme James Givens Depty State of Texas County of Live Oak I herby Certify that the rites of matrimony was solomnised between the within named parties, Loranzo Dow Yarbo- rough and Nancy White on the 30th day of November A D 1863. Addison Lane J. P. Live Oak County (Note: the Deputies name James has been written in shorthand on the original. There are some letters before James Givens that I really can't make out, but I think they are possible shorthand for "presence of me" (pme). The surname might be Grover, but I think that it is Givens. I believe the county clerk to be Samuel Mapes.) Lorenzo Dow Yarbrough went to McMullen Co., TX circa 1860 with his father, John Swanson Yarbrough, and step mother, Franics. Dow was born January 1840 in Houston Co., TX, a son of John Swanson and Cynthia Yarbrough. The Yarbrough family lived in Gonzales Co. TX from circa 1850 - 1855. By circa 1856 the family appears in Atascosa County. In McMullen County the Yarbrough family settled on a bend of the Frio River that became fhe first settlement of the county named Yarbrough's Bend. Dow died on January 05, 1907 in La Salle Co., TX. Because McMullen Co. was not officially organized until 1877 there remained no county seat for the county. Until 1877 all legal matters were recorded in neighboring Live Oak County. Most McMullen county citizens obtained their marriage licenses at Oakville in neighboring Live Oak County. In some instances McMullen county citizens obtained their marriage license in neighboring Atascosa county. This accounts to the fact of Dow and Nancy having filed for a marriage license in neighboring Live Oak County. Nancy White, daughter of Headley Coburn White and Lydia J. Wright, was born August 28, 1846 in Leon Co., TX. The White family was recorded on the 1860 Karnes Co., TX census, but apparently were living in McMullen or Live Oak county area by 1863. In the early 1870s the family may have been living in Wilson Co. By 1880 the family was listed on the McMullen Co. census next to Dow and Nancy. Nancy died on February 12, 1931 in, La Salle Co., TX. We know that Dow and Nancy probably remained in McMullen County up until 1884 when Dow purchased a lot in the town of Tilden. By 1890 the family may have already moved into neighboring La Salle County, as one of their daughter's marriage licenses was recorded there. The family is listed on the 1900 La Salle Co. census and some of their grown children are found to be living near them. In 1906 Dow filed for his civil war pension in McMullen Co.and unfortunately, it wasn't approved until March 1907, nearly 3 months after his death. In May 1907 Nancy filed for a civil war widow's pension that was approved in September 1907. In March 1908 Nancy bought a lot in the Davenport addition in the town of Cotulla, La Salle Co. Both Dow and Nancy Yarbrough are buried in the Old Cotulla Cemetery in Cotulla, La Salle Co., TX. Dow's grave is marked with a civil war headstone while there is no headstone for Nancy.