Here is a close-up look at the witness section of Joseph G. Streeper and Mary Kingston Parker's marriage certificate. Notice the names of the two witnesses on the left bottom. They are H. A. Parker and V. J. Wetherby. Who are they? H. A. Parker must be a relative of Mary Kingston Parker. Frank Logue believes her mother was named Mary A. Allen Parker. If true, she was not a witness. H. A. Parker might have been Mary's father or an aunt or uncle, or a sibling. This may give us a clue to trace Mary's ancestry. Merry Logue's family stories relate that Mary Kingston Parker's father was against her marrying Joseph Streeper because he wanted her to go to college and he could afford to send her. The legends say that he was estranged from Mary but was often seen watching Joseph and Mary's children from afar. If true, H. A. Parker was likely not Mary's father.

We can be sure of the identity of the second witness. V. J. Wetherby was Virginia Josephine Wetherby, Joseph G. Streeper's half-sister from his mother's second marriage. See the notation from George W. and Mary V.'s family bible reproduced below. Virginia married Edmund Wetherby a little more than three years before Joseph G. Streeper married Mary K. Parker. Once again, Mary V. Streeper is elusive. She lived fifteen years beyond Joseph's wedding. Why was she not an official witness at the wedding?