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I have not seen the name mentioned in any wills....be it Halifax, Cumberland, or anywhere else, for that matter.
That being said, I think you have to go with what you've got......that Mourning Guthrie was the child of one of the principals living in the area where she was married. The Ashbys, as I recall, lived in the northern district so I would guess that Mourning lived in close proximity to that family. The two Guthries in the northern district were brothers Travis and John Guthrie. Travis had come to Halifax County as a young man, ca. 1768, and John had come there after the Rev. War, ca. 1792. In a family settlement in 1836, the children of John Guthrie are named as heirs and there was no Mourning (she should have been alive then). You said "Since there was no bond for the marriage, maybe she was in that area staying with relatives & born in another county." While that is a possibility, it seems an awfully long stretch or assumption. Cumberland County was some 75 miles away and we know both Travis and John came from there. I don't see how you can just blindly assume Mourning came from there and was staying with the Travis or John Guthrie families in Halifax. Thomas Guthrie(Travis Guthrie's eldest son) was listed as a separate tithable in 1788 so he was an adult and living away from his father at that time. Mourning would have been born in the 1780s to have married in 1802 so she certainly could have fit in that family's mix. With no sort of documentation, there's a good chance you'll never know her father. The best candidate, in my opinion, has to be Travis Guthrie, son of old Thomas Guthrie of Cumberland County, VA., who some researchers believe came there from King William County, VA. ca. 1750.
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