Lisa, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I really appreciate the information. Now if I can just reconcile Lovel's supposed birth date with his parents' marriage. According to the Death Record, he was born about 1803; however, in the 1860 Census for Monroe Co., WV, he was listed as 60 years old, making his DOB 1800. In either case, from all records he was born way before the marriage of his parents. Something still amiss here. Sarah's age at death should have been 78 (not 18) yrs, 7 mos, 12 days. (Someone mistook a 7 for a 1.) Thanks again, ever so much, for the help. Sarge At 10/5/2011 10:07 PM Wednesday, Lisa deGruyter wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >Marriage bond 28 Jan 1809, Monroe Co. (W)VA for Solomon Broyles and >Sally Thompson, daughter of Margaret Thompson now Cole online here: >http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11371046&Type=Marriage > >Robert Rains was the other person on the bond. > >First marriages at that age were not all that unusual, in my experience. > >Solomon and Lovel's death index recrods are on the same page here: >http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=4730661&Type=Death > >and Solomon was listed as 92 at his death in 1865, Lovel as 62, same year. > >However, Sarah Broyles, daughter of Margarett Thompson, wife of Solomon >died 1858, is listed as 18 yrs 7 mo 12 da which must be a >mistranscription into the record book. >http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=4731227&Type=Death > >The WV Vital Records online is a "a collaborative venture between the >West Virginia State Archives and the Genealogical Society of Utah (GSU)" >and were indexed by volunteers using the LDS FamilySearch indexing >system. They are searchable through the LDS FamilySearch or the WV >Archives and History interface at >http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_select.aspx > >As I mentioned, images of the will books are browseable but not yet >indexed, and available through FamilySearch only. > >(Free - well, brought to you by WV taxpayers, LDS, and volunteers) > >Lisa >==== >Lisa deGruyter >Clarksburg, West Virginia >http://ldeg.wordpress.com > > >On 10/5/2011 8:19 PM, George W. Durman wrote: >> >> Need some help with Lovel BROYLES in the subject line. >> >> I originally had him as the son of Zacharias BROYLES and Elizabeth BROYLES. >> >> Thanks to Mark Shaw who posted a Comment on the Tree at Ancestry, we now have Lovel's Death Record which shows his parents as Solomon BROYLES and Sarah. Lovel's spouse is listed as Elsie, who I am sure is his 2nd wife, Alice "Elsie" "Alcey" RAINS. So, I've detached Lovel from Zacharias and re-attached him to Solomon J. BROYLES and Sarah J. "Sally" THOMPSON. >> >> The problem I have is that someone, a long, long time ago, sent me data saying that Solomon and Sarah received a Marriage License on 28 Jan 1809 and were married on 2 Feb 1809, about years AFTER Lovel was born. >> >> Plus, in 1809, Solomon was about 36 years old and Sarah was about 28 years old, which just doesn't sit well with me. For both spouses to be that old at marriage is very unusual, so I wonder if the marriage data is incorrect. I can't find the original correspondence sent to me about the marriage to see if there were any sources given. >> >> Any help appreciated, >> Sarge >> >> >> >******** >Hear Bill Barker from Colonial Williamsburg speak on Thomas Jefferson and slavery at Graves Mountain Lodge, Madison County, Virginia October 1, 2011. For information contact: www.germannacolonies.org > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANS-VA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** Germanna Database at Ancestry: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/28427876/recent?o_iid=41125&o_lid=41125&o_sch=Web+Property My Germanna Database at Rootsweb: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=germanna My Germanna Website at Rootsweb: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/index.html