Mark Wedding, August 26, 1820 – February 25, 1894.  Cloverport Cemetery, Breckinridge County, Kentucky.

The Breckenridge News, Cloverport, Kentucky

Wednesday, February 28, 1894

An Old Resident Dead

Mr. Mark Wedding, seventy-two years of age, died of consumption at his home in this city at 1 o’clock p.m. Sunday, February 25.  His remains were interred in the Cloverport City Cemetery yesterday.

Mr. Wedding had been in bad health for some time, and his death was not a surprise to those who were acquainted with his condition.  He has been a respected citizen of Cloverport for many years and his death is regretted by many friends.  He raised a family of four sons, who are filling lucrative and honorable positions in other parts of the country.  He leaves a widow to mourn the loss of a good husband.

Mark Wedding was married twice.  His first wife, Nancy Jane Hale was the mother of his seven children.  Mark and Nancy married August 19, 1843, in Ohio County, Kentucky.  They lived there through the 1860’s.  Mark was made Postmaster of Fordsville July 20, 1865.

Through the census records I have found the names of their children:

1. Emily, born about 1844, died 1915 in Ohio County.
2. Charles Lee, born 1845, died 1918 in Indiana.
3. Mark, born 1848, no record of death.
4. Caleb H., born 1848, died 1929 in Texas.
5. Columbus Victor, born 1855, died 1915 in Missouri.
6. Millard F., born 1855, no record of death.
7. Annie J., born 1859, died 1939 in Larue County, Kentucky.

Mark started out as a carpenter, thus listed in the 1850 census.  In 1860 he was a farmer, and by 1870, and a move to Breckinridge County, he was a merchant and thus remained until his death.

Nancy Hale Wedding died in 1874.  Two years later Mark married Sophronia Shacklette.  She had two children from a previous marriage – Emma and Alfred, listed in the 1880 census.  Sophronia Shacklette Wedding moved to Rome, Indiana, to live with her daughter after the death of husband Mark.