Morgan County marriage records list marriage of John L. Link to Jane Alfrey on 21 Aug 1895. (He had been previously married to Rhoda Sexton, and also had a son John Tom Pettit by Elizabeth Pettit.) The marriage record is from the index book compiled by Gertrude Nickell; it does not give ages or any other details. 1900 Soundex index lists in Morgan Co., E.D. 76, p. 4, line 10: John L. Link, 64, July 1835; wife Nancy, 17, Sept 1882; son David H., 12, July 1887; boarder Preston Petitt, 26, Nov 1873. All born in Kentucky. (If the wife Nancy is the same as the Jane Alfrey whom he married in 1895 - and there is no other marriage record for John Link between 1895 and 1900 - then either her age here is wrong, or she was only 12 when she married 59-year-old John Link. I have not identified the parents of the boarder Preston Petitt, nor found him in any other census years. He is very likely another illegitimate son of John Link and Lizzie Pettit, but who raised him I don't know.) 1910 Soundex index lists in Morgan Co., index as 062 0152 0109: John L. Link, 74; wife Nancy J., 25; son David H., 22; dau-in-law Martha J., 15. All born in Kentucky. Note that the age for Nancy is two years younger than that implied by the 1900 census. Index to Kentucky death records lists Nancy Link, d. 29 Aug 1925, age 41, in Morgan Co., certificate Vol. 51, #25193. (This would imply a birthdate in about 1884, which is consistent with the 1910 census. But if this Nancy J. Link is the same as the Jane Alfrey who married John L. Link in 1895, it's hard to believe she'd be marrying at age 11. So the 1900 census is probably more correct.) Does anybody have easy access to either the Kentucky Death certificates or to Morgan County marriage license books to see who they list as the parents of Nancy Link? Since it appears she was born after 1880, and married before 1900, she won't appear in any census with her parents. Teri Pettit [email protected] http://www.best.com/~tpettit/family/tpfamily.html (my personal genealogy) http://www.best.com/~tpettit/rowan/rowan.html (Rowan Co. KY genealogy)