In a message dated 2/27/11 10:06:53 PM, mepiper@gotsky.com writes: > Hello - I recently noticed a Lovelace tree on Ancestry.com which listed > Ol' > Ben as having married a Sarah Robey Orme in 1746 no children, Then married > to Sarah Collier in 1754 with all the known children listed. There were no > citations. I have never seen Ol' Ben connected with two marriages. Does > anyone have a thought about this? > > Merilee Lovelace > Merilee, I've never seen that either. There is no proof of any kind of Sarah's surname, but speculation has been rife for Robey, Orme and Collier. The Collier comes into play because Benjamin got land from a Collier and the wording of the deed led to speculation that Sarah was a daughter of that man. However, I found several deeds from that same Collier to several different people and all of them were worded like Benjamin's. It appears that Collier was leaving the state when he sold all that land, but it was leaving his options open in case he wanted to return. The deeds were all worded in such a way that he could come back to the land at some point in the future if he chose. I've tried to find the families near them who had some of the same names in them that they named their sons, but so far I've not really found anything very definite. I truly don't think there were two marriages. That sounds like something that may have come from LDS stuff sent in by various people. They will post info like that from more than one source and it ends up looking like two marriages, when in fact it is just different info from different people and then someone else has come along and posted it like two marriages. Lou Ann