YIPPEEE!!!! I finally made it to the library today. I was in heaven, or at least genealogist heaven:-) Here is the little bit I got. Maybe some is old news, but I am giving Lincoln County, N.C. heck, so bear with me please. Sharon Dover Romanek =============== Lincoln County, N.C. Marriage Lic. 1901-1936 Mull, Dover M; Sain, Emma; Dec 26, 1907 ============ Lincoln County Marriages Volume 1, 1868-1888 Dover, Isa, 29 Cleveland County, 19 Dec. 1872, son of Wm. (decd) & Martha Dover), York, S.C. m. Thornburg; Katy (SIC) 28, Lincoln County, daughter of Wm. & Mary Thornburg ======== THESE I THINK ARE OLD NEWS< BUT THOUGHT THERE MIGHT BE SOME LITTLE SOMETHING THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN MISSED. Lincoln County Court Records #114 State of North Carolina, Lincoln County, at a Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions begun & held for said county on the first Monday in July, 1795 before the worshipful John Moore Esquire THIS HAPPENED THE FIRST FRIDAY OF JULY 1795 The state vs. Hezekah Dover-Jury sworn find the Defendant Guilty in manner and form and charged as the bill of indictment. Ordered by Court that Hezekah Dover receive five lashes on his bare back and that the Sheriff execute the same and the he be in custody until fine paid. Jury: Daniel Warlick, Jonas Hedick, Batee Abernathy, John Boyd, David Baxter, Peter Ikard, William Beaty, Samuel Jingles, Frederick Ward, John Billiger, Peter Stroupe, John Bumgardner. --------------- THIS HAPPENED THE FIRST FRIDAY OF JANUARY 1795 #104 State of North Carolina, Lincoln County, At a county court of pleas & Quarter Sessions begun & held for the County of Lincoln at the Court house in Lincolnton, on the first Monday in January AD 1795 before the worshipful Morris Cox, Esquire. The State vs. John Dover-Jury sworn find the Defendant guilty fined 6d and costs, Jury-John Long, Arthur Graham, David Shoeford, Felty Devault, Aaron Cox, Thos. McGee, Peter Stamy, John Bullinger, Samuel Dyer, Jacob Sides, Larance (SIC) Yonts, Stephen Senter. ========== CODE Date/Surname/Sex/Color/Place of Death/Name of Father/Name of Mother/Volume/Page Index To Vital Statistics Lincoln County, North Carolina 1913-1922 1956/June/20/Deaver/Harry Van Buren/M/W/ Cleveland/ Oscar Deaver/Pear;l Baldwin/143/56 1959/Jan/19/Dover/Samuel Martin/ M/W/ Lincolnton/Thomas Dover/Martha Ellis/46/56 1964/April/18/Dover/Will/M/W/Lincolnton/Samuel M. Dover/Sara Blanton/51/52 1966/Jan/1/Dover/Jane E./F/W/Lincolnton/Marvin Smith/ Lena Martin/53/58 1970/Dec./14/Dover/Walter H./M/W/ Jim Dover/ Ida Dover/57/68 1971/ Jan/15/Dover/ John Edwin/ M/W/ Lincolnton/ Benajmin A. Dover/ Lou Vonia Holcomb/ 58/58 ======== 1870 Census Lincoln County, N.C. Pg. 188 #30 Lynch, Ephraim M. 35/M/W/ Farmer/650 Dover, Nathan 36/M/W/ Farm Labor Bumgardner, Eliza 18/F/W/House Keeping , James M. 1/M/W ============= ======= 1860 Census Lincoln County, N.C. Nothing ======= 1850 Census Lincoln County, N.C. Nothing ===== 1840 Census Lincoln County, N.C. Nothing ====== 1830 Census Lincoln County, N.C Nothing ========= Civil Action Court Papers 1771-1806 of the Court of Please & Quarter Sessions Lincoln County, N.C. Dover Nothing ========== 1820 Census Lincoln County, N.C. Dover Nothing ========= 1810 Census, Lincoln County, N.C. Dover Nothing ======== 1800 Census Lincoln County, N.C. Dover Nothing Dever Nothing Devore Nothing ======== Marriage Bonds of Tryon & Lincoln County, N.C. Hambright, Fredk, Dover Mary; David Dickey; 17 July 1781; end Col. Hambright CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT THE end MEANS?? I ASKED AT THE LIBRARY AND THEY DID NOT KNOW. ===========