Finally Found It! Marriage License for Carrie Avery and Tracy D Porter in 1895

Shelby County, Tennessee, “Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKH9-9LH8 : accessed 15 March 2016), entry for marriage licence, Recorded Marriage Rec Book Q, page 560, T. D. Porter and Miss Carrie Avery, issued 13 July 1895.

Back of the same marriage license.

Closeup of the entry in the marriage book.  Shelby County, Tennessee, “Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKH9-2S39 : accessed 15 March 2016), entry for marriage licence, Recorded Marriage Rec Book Q, page 560, T. D. Porter and Miss Carrie Avery, issued 13 July 1895.

All this time I thought Carrie Avery (1871-1855) and Tracy D. Porter (1863-1945) (parents of yesterday's subject, Letta Estella Porter) were married somewhere in Mississippi about 1895, but was unable to find a record for it, which is perplexing as Mississippi records are pretty thorough.

It turns out they traveled up north to Shelby County, Tennessee to get married!  Something about this tells me the marriage was not approved by her parents, otherwise they probably would have been married in Mississippi.  I believe that Carrie's parents (Celestine Herrod and John Warren Avery) were likely in Lyons, Coahoma, Mississippi at this time.

Shelby County, Tennessee is about a 1 1/2 hour drive by today's standards from Lyons (which is just east of Clarksdale, Mississippi), according to Google Maps.

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