Before Jerry died there was talk of a mysterious piece of documention that would link the PA and VA Kilgores. Then more talk of documenting showing the original Kilgores date of arrival. Did anyone ever see either of them? I prefer documented sources, although the old stories can be interesting. For example: In the mid 1900s some Hardwicks hired a genealogist to track their family in KY. He came back with this story. Mary Ann "Polly" Hardwick was born in 1813 in England in the Hardwick castle. She was a princess. As a teenager she became pregnant. Her family was so embarrassed that they shipped her off to the new world. She made her way to Pulaski County KY where she gave birth to a baby boy in 1828. She married a man with the same last name, Hardwick, probably a distant cousin, and they had four children. The truth was this. John and Agness Hardwick, living in KY, had at least 5 children, one being Mary. Then the parents disappeared or died. Two of the kids were taken by wagon to IN as servants. Mary and one of her sisters became prostitutes. She never married. She lived until 1881 and was totally blind in her old age. So how do I know she was a prostitute? One of her great granddaughters was told that by her mother. AND many years ago I spoke with two very old women in the Pulaski County Historical Society library who actually knew the people she lived with in her old age. It was an accepted fact that she had been a prostitute. Personally, I have to respect the fact that the kids all survived. Can you imagine being an orphan in the wilds of KY in the 1820s? I was impressed that she made it at all. And then she also had to take care of her son. Tough and resourceful. What a woman. I am proud to be her descendant and I am glad to know the truth. Cousin Dennie