This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TJDBAIB/1022.1063.1066.1068.1083.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Christine, Happy New Year! I have told so many people but not sure if I told you that "Manervey Reynolds" is living next door to her ex. husband Joseph C. Reynolds in 1900. Can you tell me when Manerva (Morgan) and Joseph C. Reynolds were officially divorced? In the census Manerva's name is missspelled as "Manervey... has her 9 year old son William C. and her 18 year old daughter Mary living with her in the 1900 Letcher County KY census. So yes they didn't just divorce and go thier separate ways....they continued to live next door to eachother. Do you know if she had another spouse at any time? I have a marriage date of February 9, 1868 for Manerva and Joseph. Is this correct? In the census "Manervey" lists herself as widowed (and not divorced). Joseph is 51 living next door to her. Joseph lists himself as married but there is no wife living with him only his "widowed" ex wife age 49 is living next door. He is with his "servant Hotence", Hortence lists herself as age 50 widowed and working for Joseph as his white servant and then marries him the following year.There is a 1 year old Margie living with Joseph and Hotence in 1900...James is 4 Aggie is 5 and my Coleman is 7. Do you suppose Hortence or Manerva gave birth to a child at age 49 or 50? It can happen...but your theory could be correct. These young children could be of other women. I think this is where my father's story comes into play. Coleman told me that he was told his mother died. I met Coleman's 1/2 sister, this "one year old Margie" when she was an elderly woman married to George Rogers and lived in Lexington Kentucky...this is where grandpa Joseph C. Reynolds is burried somewhere ! near Margie's home. Margie and my Coleman were only 1/2 siblings..this is a fact not a guess....meaning if Hortence was Margie's mother then Joseph had to have another mother. I can not see a 1 year old child living with anyone but her mother unless her mother was dead or living nearby or an adoption. Amanda was born after this census. Hortence did probably give birth after age 50? I just can not figure this out! There was a records fire, and as far as I know my father, Coleman b. 1892, his birth records were suposedly destroyed so I assume the other records were also distroyed. It would solve all our answers about who's mother is who. If there is another parent to these kids I would look for someone with the name of Christopher. Although I was only 9 when my father Coleman died...I remember him telling me that if I had been a boy I would have been named Christopher...I though he said Christopher was my Grandfather....but the Joe C. Reynolds photo d. 1928 is suposed to be my grandfather. Maybe this Christopher is from his maternal side? Or maybe I misunderstood. Any way happy hunting...we will figure it all out eventually I hope. Kristie