Re: Lucy Link (b. ca. 1845) & Mary Link (b. ca. 1865), Halifax Co., VA
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Re: Lucy Link (b. ca. 1845) & Mary Link (b. ca. 1865), Halifax Co., VA
Eric Bateman 4/12/12
Thanks, Eric.
You are probably right about the relationships. I had already found something that was embarrassing me for “rushing into print” with my query. A set of Thaxton records online shows Claiborne and Amy deeding Lucy Ann Link 135 ½ acres on Lawsons Creek on 27 November 1865. They wouldn’t have been giving that to a widowed daughter-in-law with no children.
Against that is the 1949 obituary of Mrs. Sallie B. Hite. “Mrs. Hite was 70 years old….A native of Halifax County, she was the daughter of the late A. S. Shields and Lucy Link Shields.” That is correct: Sallie B was one year old in the 1880 census.
So Lucy Thaxton married a Mr. Link after 1860 and was widowed by 1870. The 1880 census says Mary Link was 13 and at school, so she wasn’t three or 23 years old. If she was Lucy’s daughter, she would have been Absolom Shields’s stepdaughter instead of somebody’s sister-in-law. That would fail to answer where the three-year-old Mary was in 1870 and would bring up the new question of why Mary’s apparent son Willie Rodgers was called Absolom’s (or Lucy’s) nephew, not grandson, in 1900.
Who might have been Lucy’s first husband, Mr. Link? Where did you find Lucy’s second marriage? I always have trouble finding Halifax marriages after 1850.
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Re: Lucy Link (b. ca. 1845) & Mary Link (b. ca. 1865), Halifax Co., VA
Walter V. Turner 4/13/12