Carolyn, Since we don't have Harley Little's email address, could you please forward this message to him? Thanks! --------------------- Re: >As you must know I quite amused at the fact I suddenly became "the >late >Harley Little" who transcribed the 1850 Census of Morgan County, >Kentucky. Harley, I'm the person who most recently perpetrated this error, and apologize sincerely for my part in it. I'm very glad to hear the rumor was false! I was only repeating what somebody else said on the list several months ago; perhaps that person saw your cousin's name listed in an obituary, online death record, or other source and jumped to conclusions. >I am very familiar with all the area of Morgan, Wolfe, Menifee, Bath, >Montgomery and Breathitt Counties in Kentucky. My Little family is >spread all >over the entire area and one major branch of this family was involved in >the early feuds of Breathitt County. I particularly like going back to >Wolfe County however and visiting. Do you have any information on Wolfe County Criminal Court records from the mid 1800's? My great-great-grandfather, George Martin Hall (1837-1900) of Morgan and Rowan counties, was tried in Wolfe Co in 1868 for the murder of his brother Isaac Hall Jr. Morgan County KY Civil and Criminal Court Order Book 10 (1867-1869), records on page 83, "Commonwealth vs George Hall, Charge of Murder, Bail set for $2500.00. Thomas E. Lewis of Morgan County and J. M. Lewis of Rowan County appeared in open court. George Hall to appear in Wolfe Circuit Court 1st day next term." and on page 84, the same actions as above for George's son Ben Hall. On the back of the indictments is an annotation "May Term, 1868. By petition of George Hall, Ben Hall, James Hall, Wiley C. Roberts and F. Alfrey venue changed to Wolfe County." I believe he was either acquitted or pardoned, because he is free in the 1870 census, but it would be great to be able to find an actual record of the verdict. See this web page for details of the pre-trial hearings in Morgan County: http://www.best.com/~tpettit/rowan/ikehall.html I've heard that Wolfe County Criminal Court records before 1912 were burnt in a court house fire, but often such losses are partial. With your interest in Wolfe County and the history of feuds, I thought you might have direct knowledge of whether any criminal court records from this period survived. -- Teri Pettit