Daughter of Niles Meriwether (1830 KY - 1900 TN) (FAG 16633749) & Lide Parker Smith (1829 VA - 1913 NY) (FAG 16633725), she married Rostan Betts 04 Feb 1882 in Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, eloping with her sister, Lucy Virginia Meriwether (FAG 16633725). Issue:
Martha Niles Betts (1883 - 1901), Lucy Virginia Betts Fielding (1885 - 1968), & Rostan Betts (1887 - 1971)
The Huntsville Weekly Democrat
MARRIED:
BETTS - MERRIWETHER. - At the rectory of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 4, 1882, by Rev. H. H. Sneed, ROSTAN BETTS, ESQ., son of Judge E. C. Betts, to MISS MATTIE MERRIWETHER, and LOWE DAVIS, ESQ., son of the late Col. Nich. Davis, to MISS LUTIE VIRGINIA MERRIWETHER.
The two couples went from Huntsville to Chattanooga, last Friday night, returned Sunday, 1 a. m., and were greeted at the depot by 20 or 30 young men. The bridegrooms are promising young lawyers of Huntsville, and the brides accomplished daughters of Maj. Niles Merriwether. The marriages created general surprise in this city. May both couples have merry weather in the voyage of life, be prosperous and happy here, and reach a haven of eternal bliss, at last!
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