The next time someone makes a run to the records room at the courthouse, could you check one thing for me? I have seen only one reference to the marriage of my Samuel Slack and that was to a Ruth Zaires on 28 SEP 1849 in Scioto County, Ohio. Would it be possible for someone to check this for me and make sure that Ruth's last name was, in fact, Zaires? She was supposed to have been born in Kentucky about 1818, but I can find no trace of this surname. I am trying to locate her correct maiden name, but of course, even Zaires may not be her maiden name, as she was about 31 years old when she married Samuel Slack and may have been a widow. Would like to hear from anyone connected with this Slack line. Supposedly, Samuel's parents were Uriah Slack and Sarah Bedford. Can anyone corroborate this? Thank you. My Scioto lines are Slack, Custer, Kennedy and Jewett. Mike Radcliff Milton, Cabell County, West Virginia