Sarah Parilee Rogers or Willingham?
My grandmother's paternal grandmother was Sarah Parilee Morgan, and when I did "family tree" research the first time in the 1970's, with no internet and relatively little material, I couldn't find 'Grandma Gough'. My grandmother said her grandmother had told her that she was from north Mississippi around Holly Springs, but I couldn't find her in Marshall County. I wrote to Marshall County to see if they had a marriage record for Sarah Parilee Morgan to Ransom Kindred Gough, and they didn't. My grandmother said that 'Grandma Gough' had family in Humboldt, TN.
I've only recently found out that she was the daughter of Joel Morgan. I found them living in Desoto County, MS in 1870 and 1880, although 'Grandma Gough' had married by 1880 and wasn't with them. I've read about the horrible tornado.
I keep reading that Joel's wife Sarah was a Rogers, and that they married in 1845. There is, however, on the internet a marriage listed for Joel Morgan to Sarah Willingham in Marshall County, MS in 1845. Interestingly, there are Willinghams in Weakley County, TN, where the Rogers family was supposed to be from.
I'm not sure how this confusing situation could have happened, but either the marriage listing on the internet is wrong or the consensus it wrong.
The Humboldt TN/Gibson County, TN thing agrees, so my grandmother's memory was right about that.
I'm also wondering how Ransom K. Gough of Clarke County in east central Mississippi met Sarah from Marshall/Desoto County just south of Memphis - people usually married their neighbors back then. One of my grandmother's aunts who was still alive in the early 1970's wrote me and said that her parents took a honeymoon trip on a riverboat down the Mississippi River. That seemed unlikely then, but if they married in Desoto County - and I've read that the Morgans lived in the SW part, close to the river - it would be logical.
Any help would be appreciated.