Here is my brick wall. Any ideas or anyone else researching Halls in Hardin County Kentucky, I would love to correspond with. I am working on proving the parents of "my" John P. Hall, finding the parents of his wife Sarah and trying to find out Ignatius Hall's parents. This has been a 15 year quest, LOL John P. (possibly Peas) Hall born 1843 (according to several years of census records, but we know how accurate those can be), all his census records, including the early ones when he and his wife were still living in Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky say he was born in Kentucky. J.P. as he as known, married Sarah A. (whose single sister is named Matilda Morton, I have searched every census state and federal as well as Kentucky records to find a Morton family with daughters Matilda and Sarah to no avail, so frustrating!). I did finally find a Marriage license for them - John P. Hall married Miss Sarah Morton 31 May 1864 in Hardin County Kentucky. The Certificate lists him as J.P. Hall with witnesses Igna. Hall and ? L. May. This helps to support my theory below about Ignatius being John's father. In the 1880 census of Elizabethtown, Hardin Co. KY, J.P. and Sarah have two children, George b. 1867 in KY and Barney Edward (my gggrandfather) b. 1870 in KY. Barney was married in Alexander County Illinois (on the Kentucky border) in 1894. J.P. and Sarah appear in the 1900 census in Alexander County, and I have found several references in various books about Alexander County to J.P. and "Grandma" Hall as J.P. also served as one of the first Justices of the Peace for Olive Branch, Illinois. J.P. died sometime between this 1900 census and the next as Sarah is listed as a widow in that one, with her two grandchildren from George living with her. Family lore says J.P. was buried in Olive Branch, cannot find a record of that. A cousin gave me info from another cousin who says he died in South Bend Indiana, cannot find record of that either and I have found numerous errors in that data. Despite searching in three states cannot find a death certificate. Olive Branch is a tiny town and it is a distance from any other towns and so there was no newspaper records that I could find. Cannot find the burial site for Sarah either, although my older Great-Aunts think they are buried in unmarked graves in Olive Branch, in a small cemetery where I have not been able to find records kept so that turned out to be my best guess. Decided to try to find parents so, I searched every Hall family in Hardin County Kentucky and found the following closest match. Ignatius Hall family in Elizabethtown, Hardin County. Ignatius was born about 1816 in KY, wife Elizabeth, had several children, among them John P. Hall born about 1843. They appear in the 1850/1860/1870 census records, John with them in 1850 and 1860. This is just a lead as it is the only John P. in Elizabethtown with the right birth date, but it would jive with the witness of an Igna. Hall on J.P.'s Marriage Certificate to Sarah. I cannot find any mention of Halls in county or city histories. I should add, I have exhausted all avenues that I know of, been researching this dead end off and on for 17 years now. Ancestry.com, all online Hardin County Genealogy sites (google, Cyndi's list, Elizabethtown, Rootsweb, Genweb, Kindred Trails, etc.) I've exhausted the Genealogy section of the St Louis Library, all libraries in Alexander County Illinois, all my cousins and Aunts. Hardin County just added some wonderful databases to their official website and found the marriage certificate there. My last shot was hoping someone else had run across this name in their research in Kentucky or Southern Illinois. thanks Denise MSA **************Know Your Numbers: Get tips and tools to help you improve your credit score. (http://www.walletpop.com/credit/credit-reports?ncid=emlcntuswall00000002)