This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/yAC.2ACE/1018 Message Board Post: My Emaline did marry Abraham Linkous in 1838; however all other research gives her last name as Simpson and not Simpkins. The Linkous Family website includes information regarding a Montgomery marriage bond for the marriage and shows her father William Simpson as surety. My maternal grandmother was a Linkous, the daughter of Abraham and Emaline's son, George W. Linkous.