The Marriage of my 2nd Great Grandparents – James W. Huneycutt and Sarah Elizabeth Page

 
In the 1850’s the Huneycutt and Page families were neighbors in rural Stanly County, North Carolina. 
 
The Marcus Honeycutt family with his wife, Charity Dry had nine children; six sons and three daughters. Down the road a few families lived Sion Page with his wife Nancy. Sion and Nancy had nine children also; six daughters and three sons. 
 
So the children of these two couples grew up knowing each other’s from birth to adulthood. 
 
So it is no surprise in 1855 that James W. Honeycutt and Sarah Elizabeth Page united in Holy Matrimony on 20 May 1855 in Stanly County, North Carolina.
The marriage was documented a book entitled “Record of Marriage by Ministers and JP's; Volume #1, Years 1850-1867” on page 16.¹
 

Transcription:
James W. Huneycutt was married to Sarah Page on the
20^th day of May 1855. Do returned by
                                                  M. Furr JP

James and Sarah were married for 41 years when James passed away on 19 November 1896 in Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina. 
 
They reared a family of five children. Those children were:
 
i. Louvena Huneycutt, born 1 Oct 1855, Cabarrus Country, North Carolina; married John Calvin Deese, 9 Apr 1884, Lilesville, Anson, North Carolina; died 16 Oct 1889, Lilesville, Anson, North Carolina.
ii. Nellie Isabella Huneycutt, born 27 Oct 1858, Anson County, North Carolina; married Henry Harrison Deese Sr., 1 Feb 1875, Morven, Anson, North Carolina; died 9 May 1938, Landis, Rowan Co., NC.
iii. John Allen Huneycutt, born 19 Jan 1864, ,North Carolina; married Lizzie, 1892; died 21 Nov 1932, Cheraw, Chesterfield, South Carolina.
iv. Margaret Amanda Huneycutt, born 3 Feb 1868, Stanly County, North Carolina; married Harvey Alexander Rorie, 21 Dec 1886, Mount Croghan, Chesterfield, South Carolina; died 27 Mar 1938, Aberdeen, Moore Co., NC.
v. Lecty Huneycutt, born 3 Nov 1874, Stanly County, North Carolina; married Samuel Henry Adkinson, 8 May 1902, Wadesboro, Anson, North Carolina; died 4 Mar 1949, Harris, Stanly, North Carolina.

Daughters Louvena and Isabella married brothers, John Calvin and Henry Harrison Deese; sons of Samuel Deese and his wife, Sarah ‘Sallie’ Hill. 
 
Louvena Huneycutt Deese is my Great Grandmother. Sarah Elizabeth Page Huneycutt died on 23 March 1915. She is buried in the Palestine Cemetery, Stanly County, North Carolina.
 







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[1] "North Carolina, Marriages Index, 1741-2011," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 31 July 2015), James W. Hunnycutt & Sarah Page, Married, 20 May 1855, Stanly County, North Carolina.