Hi y'all, Again I'd like to thank everyone for providing so much help to me before regarding the death certificate for Lucinda Hudson Reece Baker where we couldn't make out the burial site and undertaker. Now I have another issue. My husband's dead end ancestor is John Reece. According to the Bible of John Moore Sr., John Reece married Deborah Moore on July 25, 1848. Supposedly John Reece killed the brothers of Deborah Moore Reece (William and John Moore Jr.) in a dispute over the will of John Moore Sr. The Bible gives a death date of May 13, 1851 for William Moore but no death date for John Moore Jr. is known. According to roll #3 of the John J. Dickey diary, page 2244 in an interview with Michael G. Horton dated April 21, 1898 Horton says that Reese (sic) killed the Moore boys outside of his saloon in Booneville and that Reese got a change of venue to Breathitt county. We had a contact in the Breathitt county library who checked the records there and replied: > I checked all of the Breathitt County Criminal Cases from 1839-1867 > and no listings for any one named Reese, Reise, Riese, Reace, or anything > near that appeared. > > We are missing one book from 1862-1864 that was destroyed in the > 1930s but that does not fit the time frame that you gave me. Other than > that the case must have never been called here in Breathitt County. Considering that information and the fact that the Horton interview was almost 50 years after the date of the killings we have to consider that maybe Horton did not have accurate information. I was wondering if someone on this list had access to Madison, Estill, Jackson or other county records and could tell me if the venue was changed to a county other than Breathitt. We have wondered about this story since our search for John Reece's origins began for the following reasons: John seems to never have been punished (why didn't the Moore family have him hung from the nearest tree?). John continued to pay taxes on his land every year (or someone did in his name) Three years after the death of her brother William Moore, Deborah Moore Reece gave birth to John's second child Mary Reece (parentage confirmed with Mary Reece Jones' death certificate). I don't know about any of you ladies out there but if someone killed two of my brothers I'd be highly unlikely to give him another child. After the birth of Mary Reece, Deborah Moore Reece disappears. On Dec 15, 1856 John Reece marries Lucinda Hudson. John and Lucinda have three children, the last one being born in 1861. John Reece disappears. On October 7, 1867 Lucinda Hudson Reece marries S.R. (Sherrod Riley) Baker So for ten years at least after the supposed killing of William and John Moore Jr., John Reece is apparently living free and clear. Can anyone shed any light on this? My thanks, and sincere appreciation of this list, Kat Reece http://www.reecemtnboys.com http://www.reecemtnboys.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1031