This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HENSLEY HELTON HOSKINS HOWARD & related families. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IMi.2ACEB/1069.3.2.1 Message Board Post: Bobbie would you be so kind to give me the documentation you have on Elijah & Louisa with Elijah being the son of Elisha Helton & Esther Osburne. I can not find a marriage record in Harlan Co. for a Elisha marrying a Esther Osburne. Of course they could have easily gotten married somewhere else. One other thing that a lot of people have problems with in the Helton family. There were two Elisha Heltons who married two Hester Osburn's. Researchers have, for years, not been able to distinguish between these two families so they lump them all together. In 1854 a Elisha Helton married a Hester Osburn. A copy of this marriage record is in Book 1 page 334 at Harlan Court House. In 1874 a Elisha Helton married a Hester Osburn. A copy of this marriage record is in Book A page 184. Another thing that mess a lot of researchers of the Helton family is that in one census a person will be listed as Elijah and in the next census he will be listed as Elisha. Randy Oplinger