You sound just like me. I have Mary Hall from Tomahawk, Kentucky and she married a William Fleming who was alot older than she was. He was born in 1774 and she was born in 1800. They married and moved to Overton Co, Tenn, buried there too, I can't find her parents at all...and well his.,,.what can I say, he is from Ireland. I will probably never find his, kathyjo Allison/Ard/Barnes/Bilbrey/Black/Bray/Blazier/Brown/Bryant/Carmack/Carr/Fleming/ Golnick/Hickey/Isbell/Kirshman/Ledbetter/LaFever/LeFever/LeFevre/Livingston/ Marquardt/Mills/Parsley/Pedigo/Saylor/Sells/Sherrell/Sherrill/ Steele/ Wilcox/Wood --- On Tue, 1/27/09, DeniseTwin@aol.com <DeniseTwin@aol.com> wrote: From: DeniseTwin@aol.com <DeniseTwin@aol.com> Subject: [HALL] Roberta - Here is my "brick wall" To: hall@rootsweb.com Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 2:37 PM 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) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HALL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message