BONARGES RILEY born in 1820 in Virginia, listed on the 1860 Hancock Co. Tennessee census as single with 8 year old son William living two doors away in the household of CARTER SPENCER from virginia. BONARGES served in the Union Army enlisting at Irvine Kentucky in 1862; married DEBORAH BOWLING who was born 1825 in Tennessee. They were married in Owsley Co. Ky. in 1874 and listed on the 1870 & 1880 census there. DEBORAH was listed as widowed on the Clay Co. Ky. census with daughter Elizabeth (my grandmother) and stepson William. According to an annotated 1880 census of Owsley both BONARGES & DEBORAH had been previously married, Bonarges three times and Deborah once. Need to know parents, siblings, marriages and children of Bonarges. According to the little family history I have Deborah was fullblood Cherokee. Please help. Marie B. Bollin