This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/573.1.1 Message Board Post: Paul, I strongly suspect your Charles L. Barnard was first married to a Miss Young before he married Lucy Elizabeth Weaver. The second marriage is on record in Marshall Co., MS. I do not have a birth date for Lucy. The following is directly quoted from Franklin Co., TN Loose Court Records, Box 1860-1869, Folder #1860-1111: Thos. Finch Admr. & c vs. Lucy E. Weaver et. al. In the Chancery Court of Franklin County, State of Tenn. The joint and separate answer Lucy E. Barnard, (formerly Lucy E. Weaver) and her husband Chas. L. Barnard to the Bill of Thos. Finch Administrator with the will annexed of Richard Sharp dec'd. filed in this Court against said Lucy E. & others. The said Chas. L. Barnard answering says that of his own personal knowledge he knows nothing of the statements and allegations in the said Bill contained, and can neither admit nor deny them, and says that he is not interested in the subject matter of this suit, except as the husband of the said Lucy E. to whom he was lawfully married before the filing of the Bill herein and with whom he is still living in lawful wedlock. Respondent Lucy E. answering says that she knows nothing of Complainant's having settled the estate of her Grand-father Richard Sharp Sr. deceased, as to the other heirs and legatees. She states that since Complt. entered upon the administration of said estate (except a short time in the summer & fall of the year 1861) she has been absent a long distance from Complt. residing, until about February 1867, in the northwestern part of the State of Mississippi, and since that time in Shelby County State of Tennessee, where she now resides, near the city of Memphis.......... ..........Mrs. Lucy E. Barnard, one of the Respondents makes oath that the statements contained in the foregoing answer made of her own knowledge are true, and those made upon information of others she believes to be true. Sworn to and subscribed to before me this the 19 day of November 1867. A. Alston C & M By R. J. Black D C & M Chancery Court of Memphis, Tenn. Lucy's signature is on this page, as well. I research all Weavers in Franklin Co., TN and am trying to find the parents of Lucy's father D. Thomas Weaver. D. Thomas Weaver was married to Amelia Ann Sharp, who was deceased by 1861. I would like to know if D. Thomas Weaver was listed in the 1870 Shelby Co., TN census or the 1870 Marshall Co., MS census. Lucy's siblings named in the estate records were Emily Jane Weaver, James Richard Weaver, John Gregory Weaver, and Robert Houston Weaver. This last brother I believe to be the Corp. R. H. Weaver 1845-1891 Co. H 8th Mississippi Cav. CSA buried in the Stephenson United Methodist Church Cemetery, Shelby Co., TN. I will quote from one final document found in Franklin Co., TN Deed Book 2, page 462: We Robert H. Weaver of Shelby County Tennessee, Lucy E. Barnard wife of C. L. Barnard and Amelia A. Weaver both of Memphis, Tennessee, all children and heirs at law of D. T. Weaver, do hereby nominate and appoint Thomas G. Scarbrough of said City of Memphis our true and lawful attorney in fact, and he is hereby authorized, impowered and directed for us severally and in our our names to collect and settle generally our several interests right and claims in and to the Estate of Richard Sharp deceased, and [left blank] Sharp deceased who formerly resided and died in or near the town of Winchester, in Franklin County Tennessee............ ........In witness whereof we have each hereunto set our hands and seals this the 28th day of August 1867. R. H. Weaver {Seal} Lucy E. Barnard {Seal} C. L. Barnard {Seal} Amelia A. Weaver {Seal} Richard Sharp, Sr. (1777-1850) and his wife Elizabeth "Betsy" Corn Sharp (1780-1857) are buried in Sharp Cemetery near Winchester, Franklin Co., TN. You might also check Chancery Court records in Shelby Co., TN for some mention of this case.