Thanks Mary for the info...much too early for my Thomas who was born 1839 or 1840 in Scotland. Family history tells me that Letitia was a "battleaxe" and Thomas could no longer stand to live with her after last child was born 1876. He is said to have left the family with all property intact and with something like "shirt on back" and just walked away. Family story saids that a Lexington attorney report several years later that he had talked with Thomas at a cattle sale in St Louis, MO about 1885 and that Thomas said that he was returning to Scotland. I have found nothing to confirm or dispute this. One evening while scanning Lexington records I saw a brief newspaper article noting that Thomas Irving of Lexington was to stand trial in the shooting of another resident...I jotted down the data and have been unable to locate it since that evening. This shooting would have occurred around late 1880's and was report in a Lexington Newspaper.. I have visited Letitia's grave in the Long Family Plot in Lexington Cemetery, and understand that the old house at 212 N. Upper St is no longer there....Thomas built three red brick homes just south of the new Court House several blocks but when there in 1988 I could not locate these houses. They were a corner lot and two lots to the east. There was a main street running N & S at that location.... Thanks again. Old Hal