Wedding photo of Samuel T. Finley and Bessie Gravelly. They were married in the Lafferty Methodist Episcopal Church in Batesville on Dec. 28, 1904, in full wedding dress. The minister was William H. Morris. (For the Gravelly family history in Izard County, see Independence County Chronicle and the Finley family file in the museum’s surname file cabinet.)
The church was for Black people and was located about mid-block on Third Street, facing the present Citizens Bank operations building to the west. (Finley/Davis collection)
