A TRIPLE WEDDING IN 1905
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Title
A TRIPLE WEDDING IN 1905
Subject
A triple wedding
Description
As the traditional "wedding season" gets underway, this photo gives a glimpse of a large triple wedding in the McColhum community off what is now U.S. Highway 29 in northern Coweta County. The wedding ceremony, which took place in August 1905, was for Lora Hembree and Robert Posey, Lora's sister Mary Odessa Hembree and Ezekiel S. Banks, and for the girls' cousin and her husband, Lizzie and Fletcher McGee. The couples are at center right. Seated at center are the Hembree girls' parents, MR. and Mrs. William Hembree. William Hembree is sporting a beard. among those in the wedding photo are Hembree, Hines and Gable family members. The house is known as the old Arnold home, which may be the first house built by R.D. Cole.
Creator
S.F. Jackson
Publisher
Newnan Times-Herald
Date
1905
Contributor
Eugene Banks
Rights
Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright law. Permission for use must be cleared through the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society. Licensing agreement may be required.
Identifier
CCR 1986.06.03
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Photograph
- Date Added
- September 25, 2016
- Collection
- Coweta County Remembered
- Item Type
- Still Image
- Tags
- McColhum community, social, wedding
- Citation
- S.F. Jackson, “A TRIPLE WEDDING IN 1905,” Newnan-Coweta History Center, accessed March 28, 2024, https://newnancowetahistoricalsociety.omeka.net/items/show/120.