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/gBB.2ACI/2117.2123.2134.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I am not researching this line but here's what I could find: "History of Kentucky, Edition 4" (1887-Perrin, Battle & Kniffen): JEFFERSON ROBARDS, Jr., was born October 6, 1848, near Bergen, Mercer Co., Ky., and in 1854, with his parents, located three miles south of Harrodsburg, where he has since resided. His father, Jefferson Robards, Sr., was born January 28, 1806, in Garrard County, where he was reared, was a farmer and slave-holder, a Whig: provost-marshal during the late war, and died September 3, 1882. He was the son of Jesse Robards, a native Virginian, an early settler in Kentucky and a soldier in the war of 1812. He married a Miss Lewis, and from their union sprang Robert, Joseph, Thomas, John, Jefferson, Sr., Ellen (Allen), Polly (Corn), Betsy (Baker), Nancy (Piper) and Frances (Anderson). Jefferson, Sr., married Eliza, daughter of Peter Farlee, of Garrard County (born in 1818, died June 22, 1878), and to them were born Louisa (Clark), Lewis (deceased), Robe! rt and Jefferson, Jr. Jefferson, Jr., married, October 16, 1883, Miss Kate, daughter of Abram and Cynthia (Young) Terhune, of Mercer County, born in January, 1863. Mr. Robards is a farmer, having 216 acres of land in a high state of cultivation. He is a member of the Southern Presbyterian Church, and in politics a Democrat. "Mercer County Kentucky Records #1 -- Marriages 1786-1850: Terhune, Abraham & Young, Sinthia Ann 9 Oct 1843 No mention of Cynthia in "History of Kentucky, Volume II" by Lewis Collins (1882) or in "History of Mercer and Boyle Counties" by Maria T. Daviess (1924) Sorry. I know this wasn't much help, Colette