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On Sunday, Oct. 25th, there was a double wedding at this place, the contracting parties being Ben DOCKERY<\/strong> and Miss Sarah J. JENKINS<\/strong>, Clemy DAVIS<\/strong> and Miss Sarah NICKELSON<\/strong>, Squire R.H. LOVINGGOOD<\/strong>, officiating.<\/p>\n The ceremony occurred at Mrs. Sarah NICKELSON’s<\/strong> house, and was witnessed by a large crowd of friends and relatives. \u00a0Mr. and Mrs. Ben DOCKERY<\/strong> had a reception Sunday afternoon at Mr. Eli PALMER’s<\/strong> residence. \u00a0A delightful meal was served to the guests, who vied with each other in wishing the bride and groom a long and prosperous life. \u00a0Mr. and Mrs. Clemy DAVIS<\/strong>‘ reception occurred on Monday at Rev. W.H. DAVIS’<\/strong> residence. \u00a0The table was loaded with good things, and the large crowd present were lavish in their wishes that time would deal gently with them and that they would finally, hand in hand, safely enter the pearly gates.<\/p>\n Source: Cherokee Scout, 10 November 1891, page 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Excerpted from the “Items from Hangingdog” column: On Sunday, Oct. 25th, there was a double wedding at this place, the contracting parties being Ben DOCKERY and Miss Sarah J. JENKINS, Clemy DAVIS and Miss Sarah NICKELSON, Squire R.H. LOVINGGOOD, officiating. The ceremony occurred at Mrs. Sarah NICKELSON’s house, and was witnessed by a large crowd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,2460,1361],"tags":[2468,2466,2467,2470,2469,2471],"class_list":["post-2723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cherokee","category-cherokee-scout","category-marriage-listings","tag-davis-clemy","tag-dockery-ben","tag-jenkins-sarah-j","tag-lovinggood-r-h","tag-nickelson-sarah","tag-palmer-eli"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-HV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2724,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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