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Rogers - Hunt
A COURTHOUSE WEDDING
A Couple From Coldwater, Miss., Finds Justice Strickland and Wedded Bliss
The courthouse library parlor was yesterday the scene of another wedding of non-resident lovers, and by a singular coincidence the kind-hearted Justice G. K. Strickland was again called upon, as he always is on these occasions, to perform the ceremony that made two souls one. The partners in the present case were Mr. W. T. Rogers, a handsome young gentleman of perhaps 26 years, and Mrs. W. E. Hunt, a pretty and youthful widow, several years his junior. All the parties were from Coldwater, Miss., and were attended by several couples from the same place. Whether it was a runaway match or not could not be ascertained, but the plan sought for the ceremony and the widely-extended reputation of Esp. Strickland as a gretna green magistrate would raise an informer amounting almost to certain that such was the case. Be this as it may, eloping lovers will always find Esq. Strickland at the Shelby county courthouse, a heart as willing and a hand as steady as the boatman of Loch-gyle to give them help in a pressing hour of need. [The Memphis Daily Avalanche, March 3, 1888 - Submitted by Debora Reese]