This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CBB.2ACE/5897.1.1.1.1.1.3.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello, That is probably as good a story as you are going to find. I have the very same type of stuff in my TAYLORs who were at Stinking Creek, Knox Co., KY. When you start uncovering the "dirt", you are getting close to the truth because there sure was a lot of dirt going on and my relatives were always right in the middle of it all. My g-grandfather's brother, Alexander William TAYLOR, had a long-term relationship with one woman who bore maybe 10 or so children. At the same time he had other relationships going on. Then he left the first woman to whom he had no official marriage and married one of his other women. He ALWAYS referred to his own sons as either 'servants" or boarders. I guess that was what you said to keep people from actually knowing your business. Of course, my own g-grandfather, Harrison TAYLOR b. 1836; shot and killed in 1904, had a lot of the very same things going on in his own live. He had one wife who died and a second younger wife. While married to the first wife, there were relationships I have uncovered so far with 3 other women. Same thing held true for yet another brother of his. I can only assume (based upon my own family) and others I know of who lived near by who were relatives of one kind or the other that this was a very commonplace thing. Joyce Taylor Collins La Palma, CA