Poking at Brick Walls

I'm looking again into the records for traces on my 3rd-great-grandmother Nancy Jane Flatt between 1878 and 1884. First I returned to the Metcalfe County, Kentucky Court Orders, where I previously found Nancy as a pauper in the Metcalfe County Poor House in 1878. I know she later moved to neighboring Barren County, Kentucky, where she married Pleasant Morgan on 1 October 1884. I've started going page by page through the Barren County Order Books from 1881-1890. I don't recall seeing the record below, dated 2 March 1882.

Ancestry. Barren County Order Book Vol. 13, Pgs 186-187.

The record lists the children of Pleasant Morgan by his deceased first wife Mary Elizabeth, who died in May 1880. They had at least the following children:

- Polly A. Morgan

- Sally Baker Morgan

- Lucy Jane Morgan

- Annie Eliza Morgan

- Samuel A. Morgan

- Jesse H. Morgan

- John W. Morgan

- Ileva Morgan

The family appears together in the 1880 US Census in Barren County.

Ancestry. 1880 US Census, Barren County, Kentucky.

It is curious to see the children had been turned over to a guardian by March 1882. Pleasant's oldest, Polly, had turned 15. In the order above, Polly requested her father be named as guardian and he declined.

After going through nearly 400 pages of Barren County Court records through January 1885, I have not seen any mention of Nancy Flatt or her children, or other references to Pleasant Morgan between 1882-1885. I'll look next at neighboring Adair County to see if anything is there.