I am in need of help. In the past several days I have read posting on a great number of John MORGANs with little or no information on them or their children. Was John Valentine MORGAN's parents from PA, OH, WV, VA, NC, KY or elsewhere? I have tidbits of information from all the men who will be listed here that any may be true for this Morgan family. Is John Valentine a descendant of Mary A. MORGAN? 1 Mary A. MORGAN b: Abt 1795 VA +?? MORGAN 2 John MORGAN b: ? Mary ?? 3 John Valentine MORGAN b: 1845 VA or KY Louisa SARTAIN b: 1846 KY John Valentine Morgan's Civil War enlistment papers indicate that he was born in Mason Cnty, KY. His pension application indicates that he was born in Covington, KY. Since he enlisted at Covington, KY it could well be that the answer on the pension application is in error. The 1860 Census indicates he was born in VA. John Valentine Morgan served in the Civil War with the Union Forces in Company J 55th Regiment of the Kentucky Mounted Infantry he enrolled as a Private on the 23rd day of February 1865. He served in the Kentucky Mounted Infantry Volunteers under Capt. Alexander W. (Lauwill) and was honorably discharged on the 19th of September 1865 at Louisville,KY. He was 5'10'' with Brown Hair and Blue eyes. He was treated in the Hospital in Lexington,KY June 7th and 8th, 1865 and was listed as malingering and deserted on June 8, 1865. He was reported as a deserter to the Pro. Mar. on June 10th at Lexington, KY. He states in his application that he resided in Mason Cnty, KY. from the time of his discharge to July 1877 and since in Adams Cnty, Ohio. He states that his occupation is that of a farmer. His address on the 26th of June 1897 is Blue Creek, Adams Cnty.,Ohio and that he lives on Johnson's Run. On January 31, 1898 he indicated that he is married to Louisa Sartain that they were married on September 18th 1864 in Aberdeen,Brown, Ohio and that the record of marriage is recorded at Georgetown, Brown Cnty, Ohio. He further lists his children and their birth dates. On March 20, 1915 he answers Pension questions indicating that he enlisted at Maysville,KY and that he and Louisa Sartain were married by Thomas Shelton at Aberdeen, Ohio. His wife and he are living together and he again lists children and dates of birth He answers pension question that his parents were John and Mary Morgan and that he was an only child. In various answers to census and pension documents he lists his parents birth places as VA, KY and OH. In the 1860 census John V. Morgan is found living with Mary A. Morgan a woman of the age of 65 who is likely his grandmother. He is 14 in this census and was born in VA. Mary A. Morgan was born in VA. Also with the family is John C. Morgan, born VA, and his wife Francis and David P. Morgan, born VA, that are of the age that they could be John V. Morgan's cousins or uncles. In 1850 another male by the name of Nathan, born VA, is living along with the aforementioned males. All of these men along with John V. Morgan served in the same KY cavalry unit in the Civil War further giving credibility to the fact that they are related. In Civil War pensions David P. Morgan states that he is the brother of John C. Morgan. John Valentine states in his civil war pension application that he was an only child and that his father was John MORGAN and his mother Mary. Information then comes to light that John V Morgan had previously enlisted in 1863. He fails to mention this in his pension application as he would have been under age when he served the first time. One enlistment is Maysville and the other is in Covington, KY. Hence the confusion on the application. Both times he served in the mounted infantry. In the census records he variously records his parents birth in VA, OH, KY. The other MORGAN men listed above list their birth and that of their parents in OH, VA, NC and KY. I need any clue you can give me!!! Derald MORGAN ___________________________________________