This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bomar Buckner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jNB.2ACI/704.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Interesting. I have some info that is similar to what you posted. And: James Murphy Buckner was a son of Henry Watson Buckner and Mary Bomar. They married at Hardin County, Kentucky, 1814. The marriage record listed John Bomar as Mary's father. However, there is some confusion regarding Mary's birth date; thus there is not evidence for her mother (John [re?] married about the time of her birth). It would appear from censuses that Henry and Mary divorced (at least they didn't live together). She possibly married again, circa 1850 - 60. In any event, I can't find her after 1850 and there is no cemetery record for her under the "Buckner" name in Hardin, Hart, or LaRue. The Bomar land in Hardin County was (mostly, I think) put into northern Hart County (1819) and / or southern LaRue County (1843). Hart is a "burned" county and most of its marriage and other records are lost. I am not a Buckner descendant; rather I am from one of Mary's possible (half?) brothers, Wils! on Bomar. There was a Bumgardner - Baumgardner family in the Hardin area circa 1820 and at least one other member married into the Bomar family. It appears they mostly lived in the new Hart County (I don't know much about the Bumgardners, however). Your James Murphy had a brother named Joel Mann Buckner and Wilson named a son Joel Mann Bomar; so if we knew where the name "Joel Mann" came from I suspect we would have some new info (there were several men of that name in 1700's Virginia). (I suspect your family went to Missouri about 1862 [not 1852]. And I think your Melvina was born in Kentucky [not Virginia, although her family probably came from there].) Caution: the "databases" much abuse these families.