Where was Great-Grandpa Atwood Willoughby from 1880 to 1910? I had no idea till yesterday and this one has been blown open with a rocket! Atwood, born Feb. 1851, was the youngest son of Samuel Willoughby and his second wife Martha Ragsdale, all of Allen County. His first wife was Mahulda/Huldy Patterson, daughter of Neil William Patterson and Mahulda Grinad/Grenade. I'm descended from their eldest daughter, Aramittie Willoughby, the second wife (and more than fourth cousin) of Sidney Philip Hardcastle of Warren County, son of James Henry Hardcastle and Ann Meeks, she the daughter of Thomas Meek/s and Naomi Grinstead. Well, now that we're all well acquainted, here's the somewhat gamy and greasy Burgoo. Well, so far, this is what it is. Lucinda Shelton was a Shelton - the "Shelton Gang" has their own Wiki page - and she takes up with an aging, ugly, married, famous but very unsuccessful to-be Civil War general named Winfield Scott who is 48 years her senior. His poor wife of more than 30 years, Maria Dehart Mayo, with whom he's populated the world with seven little Scotties, is probably worn out. Lucinda has her first child with him, fittingly named General Winfield Scott Shelton, in 1851. She never marries and all of her children are Sheltons - they are Briar proud of that Shelton name, by gum and gun. She has four children with him up to 1862. The third is Agnes, born May 19, 1858 in Webster County like all those other Sheltons. Agnes has at least two children by unnamed fathers before she hooks up with Great-grandpa Atwood and marries him in 1895, only 15 years prior to his departure to the looney bin. They have a daughter, Isabelle in 1897 who marries a guy named J D Williams and they have three kids. I'm still working on that. Some in this group seems to think that Great-grandpa's initials are A T - they don't understand that it's At - short for Atwood. They don't have his connection with his parents or anything. So he's almost 47 and she's 39 when Isabelle is born. They are all in the 1900 Census in Poole Town, living weirdly enough with my widowed Grand-uncle Solomon Willoughby, just up from Allen County. Hoo-eee! He's no spring chicken - Atwood was the baby of the second of two large Willoughby litters, born in 1851 and Ol' Sol is 65 himself. He's an elder of the second litter. There are people out there looking for info on this but I haven't found them yet. I did get Carole Palmer but this isn't her bailiwick. I don't know what went wrong, but in the 1910 census, AT or whatever you wanna call him is supposedly "widowed" (although wifey #2 Agnes outlives him, dying in 1917) and living in my grandparents' highly dysfunctional household back in Warren County. By July, they send him to the Western Kentucky Lunatic Asylum where he dies the following March of "exhaustion due to chronic mania." I can't find Isabelle yet. Agnes/Aggie seems to attribute the other children to Atwood - I'm dying to know if they could be his biological children. He was in adjacent Union County with wife Mahulda/Huldy Patterson, daughters Aramittie, Mary Elizabeth "Mollie", Sarilda Frances "Rillie" and son James Franklin, the youngest, who was born in 1880. He apparently died young. Aggie's eldest, Joseph Finley, is born in 1879. Hmmm. Who's his real daddy? I can hardly stand the suspense! And I can't find a trace of poor Huldy. I suspect she's buried - or something - in Union or Webster counties. Martha