Wedding Wednesday

 

STATE OF GEORGIA, JOHNSON COUNTY
 

TO ANY JUDGE, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, OR MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL:

 You are Hereby Authorized to Join

 Solomon Tapley and Betsey Scarboro

 in the Holy State of Matrimony, according to the Constitution and Laws of this State, and for so doing this shall be your license. And you are hereby required to return this License to me with your certificate thereon of the fact and date of the marriage.

Given under my hand and seal, this 25th day of October, 1905.

J. M. Hightower (L. S.)

ORDINARY.

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GEORGIA, JOHNSON COUNTY.                                                         CERTIFICATE.

    I certify that Solomon Tapley and Betsey Scarboro were joined in matrimony by me, this 10th day of Dec, 1905.

S. M. Harris  M.G. 

(Minister of the Gospel)

Recorded January 11th, 1906                                                                  J. M. Hightower, Ordinary.

Transcript provided by ChatGPT with quite a bit of formatting and correction by yours truly.

Solomon Tapley 1881-1971

and

Betsey Scarboro 1887-1960

(pictured here with their two oldest children, Alma Bell Tapley 1907-1973

and James Aulton Tapley 1910-1992)

Solomon and Betsey were married for 55 years and had six children together.

Uncle Sol was my grand uncle: