Mark, thank you so much for transcribing these. They are fascinating. By the by, does anyone on the list know who Bity/Betty Harris Link's parents were? ***** DIED. In this county, on the 20th Inst., after a lingering and painful illness of near eight months, Mrs. Bidy Link, wife of Capt. Silas M. Link, in the 31st year of her age. *****