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I\u2019ve been trying to learn a little more about my husband\u2019s Williams family who lived in the area of Kentucky where Caldwell, Christian, and Hopkins counties meet.<\/p>\n
Back in December 2011, I learned the name of his great-grandparents, James Pearl WILLIAMS and Norma Ola \u201cNola\u201d BOYD.\u00a0 I then found an index entry for their marriage in 1905 in Christian County.\u00a0 And in February 2012, I retrieved their marriage record while I was at the FHL.1<\/sup><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Today, I found a marriage announcement in the Hokinsville Kentuckian<\/em> at Chronicling America<\/a>.2<\/sup><\/p>\n I know from Pearl\u2019s death certificate that his parents were given as James WILLIAMS and Lou DUNNING.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I have not been able to find anything on them in the censuses (Pearl would likely be living with them in 1900 as he didn\u2019t marry until 1905\u2014but I can\u2019t find them!).<\/p>\n Working with the name James Williams across three Kentucky counties is not easy.\u00a0 But today, I managed to find a marriage index entry on Ancestry<\/a> for a James Williams and a Luwandy Dunning, who married in 1873 in Hopkins County.\u00a0 Seems promising; Luwandy could equal Lou, right time, right place.\u00a0 So I plan to obtain a copy of the marriage record and see what clues it might hold.<\/p>\n Making progress!<\/p>\n Sources<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 1.\u00a0 Christian County, Kentucky, Christian County Marriage Records, 1797-1971, 16: 28-29, Williams-Boyd; FHL microfilm 1,942,960.<\/span><\/p>\n 2.\u00a0 “Williams-Boyd, Young People of Near Empire Married This Week,” Hopkinsville Kentuckian, 2 September 1905, p. 2, col. 2; digital images, Chronicling America (chroniclingamerica.loc.gov : accessed 16 April 2013), Historic American Newspapers.<\/span><\/p>\n Genealogy By the States<\/a><\/em> is a theme created by Jim Sanders over at the <\/em>Hidden Genealogy Nuggets<\/a><\/em> blog.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve been trying to learn a little more about my husband\u2019s Williams family who lived in the area of Kentucky where Caldwell, Christian, and Hopkins counties meet. Back in December 2011, I learned the name of his great-grandparents, James Pearl WILLIAMS and Norma Ola \u201cNola\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[348,351],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","category-personal-research","tag-family-williams","tag-genealogy-by-the-states","cat-25-id","cat-26-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-5m","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2770,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Pearl](\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/--vZ9573sfxw\/UW4bkqlreeI\/AAAAAAAAIjA\/GFrBX3kbGfA\/Pearl%252520Williams%252520Marriage%252520Record%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800\" "\\"Pearl")
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