This is good to read every now and then. I find it inspiring and thank you for sharing it. Mickay I have one g grandfather who apparently had one family I know little about except that there they are in a census for VA; later he remarried and ran off with his step daughter to PA, returned to VA with the offspring from that liaison, telling the mother (who married and had a large family in PA) that the baby had died. Really he had placed it with a doctor in Gore and later his mother did get to see him. That g grandfather was apparently so out of favor with the rest of the family that I knew nothing of him until I started pursuing genealogy, yet I still am avid to find more information about the old reprobate! In another line my gg grandfather ran off with a much younger girl when his wife died, married her according to records I've seen, but ended up in the poorhouse but luckily for him rescued so he lived out his days with a son, my great grandfather James Peter Bailey. And I'd still like to know what drove the old rogue, his father, Thornton Bailey.