Hello folks, First off, for those on the tnstewar-l mailing list too, I apologize thet you're seeing this twice. This family lived in Stewart County, but since this marriage was in Montgomery County, I thought I'd post it here too in case there's anyone with more information: A few people on this list are descended or interested in the marriage between John Bunyon Key and Araminta Thweatt. I found a posting on another forum listing information from their marriage license data from Montgomery County, so I asked a family member in Clarksville to get a copy of their marriage license and send it to me. I was more than a little bit shocked at what I found. The marriage license didn't say John Bunyon Key, or J.B. Key as it says in the census records. The marriage license shows that Araminta Thweatt married "John E. Key". On another of the documents it says "J. E. Key". It's quite clearly an "E" and not a "B". Furthermore, on the marriage bond, it is signed "John E. Key" in his own hand! This seems to eliminate the possibility that the clerk just misunderstood. The first lesson I took from this is "never trust references to documents you' haven't verified yourself". Now, the problem. How do we justify "John Bunyon Key" with John E. Key. Could "Bunyon" have been a nickname that stuck to the point that he eventually just took the "B" as his initial instead of the "E"? Could the "E" stand for "Equilla" as it did for his son, John Equilla Key? I'm really confused now and would welcome anyone who might be able to shed some light on this issue. If you'd like to see these documents, I have them online at: http://www.erc.msstate.edu/~roger/genealogy/documents/JohnEKey_AramintaThweat_MarriageLicense.jpg http://www.erc.msstate.edu/~roger/genealogy/documents/JohnEKey_AramintaThweat_MarriageRegisterBook.jpg http://www.erc.msstate.edu/~roger/genealogy/documents/JohnEKey_AramintaThweat_MarriageRegistered.jpg _\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_ | Roger L. Smith Phone: 662-325-3625 | | Systems Administrator FAX: 662-325-7692 | | roger@ERC.MsState.Edu http://WWW.ERC.MsState.Edu/~roger | | Mississippi State University | |____________________________________ERC__________________________________| ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237