This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.netscape.com/mbexec/msg/4317/zV.2ADI/1669.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for your reply. Actually there was no hanky panky in the availability of legally getting married. Pure shotgun. Lulen's father went to the Klondike looking for gold with his eldest son. Left the middle son home with mother and his younger brother under his care. He met a sweet pretty young scots woman who was barely 17named Ella May, and the rest became history. Ora was born in March 1900. I have been unable to find a record of either Ora's birth or Ella and Lulen Travis' marriage. It was recorded in the family bible though, but his second wife wouldn't let me see it, and in fact became very angry with me when I found out through Lulen's brother that it was a shotgun. I guess I may never find those two dates.