This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XBB.2ACE/1775 Message Board Post: I am looking for someone that has knowledge of William H. O Bernard that married Sarah Wilkerson. He was the son of Abner Bernard and Rebecca Perkins. His James Henry Bernard married Susie Bell Luttrell. He was 40 and she was 16. Census records indicated it was a thrird marriage for him. My father remembers his uncle Hannibal? coming around when he was young. He used to buy them ice cream. Hanibal was living in Indiana at the time. I don't think they had any children because he would buy my father and sisters clothing because they were rather poor. James Henry had a gambling problem. I think he was married to a woman named Marguet Hart in 1910, she had a son in 1911 named James Bernard 2 but he passed away in the 1920's which was after James Henry hooked up with Susie Bell. I just would like to know what happened. HIs father William Hector Owens Bernard was supposedly a country Doc of some sort because he delivered all of Susie Bell's children. My Aunt remembers someone calling from the Russell County area at one time wanting to know if they wanted William H. O. Bernard's medical books. He went by the name of Heck. When James Henry Bernard died in 1966 in Harrodsburg, KY, my Aunt says people came from all over Russell County to the funeral. Of cours! e there is know book or anything. No even a death certificate. My Aunt says that it was always hush hush about this kind of stuff in the family but I figure some older folks know something. I would just like to know why he basically disowned his family from Russell County. So if any of you Bernard researchers have any suggestions of why or how this all happended I would really appreciate the help. I will be in KY within the next month for a visit. Please let me know if there is anyone I can call or go visit or where to look. Thanks Tammy Bernard