Hi. I'm new to this list, and have seen a bit of discussion about a Thomas Akers who married in Barren County, Kentucky, in 1801. Does anyone know whether he remained in Kentucky and died there? I ask because I have a Thomas Akers who showed up in what is now Livingston Parish, Louisiana, in 1806 with a possibly bogus story about being from Ireland. He married there (at age 36) to Martha Mitchell, and had two children before his death in 1815. I've sometimes wondered whether Thomas was on the run from somewhere else (as a lot of settlers in that part of Louisiana were). Did the Kentucky Thomas have any reason to disappear, say, about 1805? -- Mark James <tmark@geocities.com>