G. M. Savage was pastor of Mercer Baptist Church for many years, though this may not help in regard to an 1872 marriage since Mercer was a railroad town which originated when the Tennessee Midland Railroaf was built in the 1880s. There is a photo of G. M. Savage and mercer Baptist Church in G. E. Azbill's "Reminiscences of a Baptist Minister" http://www.tngenweb.org/madison/history/azbill.htm David