Probable assumptions? I use another term...preponderance of evidence;
same thing I'm sure.  Don't recall whom but I think preponderance of
evidence is no longer an acceptable terms; haven't learned what has been
substituted. Maybe someone can enlighten me. With burned counties,
otherwise missing records, same names, it's impossible to make any
progress at all without utilizing either your term or mine. And, when one
has ancestors like some of mine, it's desperately needed. My [Arthur]
Gardner HOLCOMB(E) was married at least four times, probably five!!! Wife
#1: first name only; IF there was a wife between the one he divorced and
the one we "know" about, nothing; next wife: mother of most of his
children [this is based on the fact that there was a "Madam Butterfly," 
the probable wife #2. [I descend from the probable #3.] We know the name
of wife #4 but no more; was she a widow or a spinister at the time of
their marriage? What happened to her? The marriage certificate is all we
have. Wife #5, the one with whom he was living at the time of
death....don't know if the name under which she married him was a maiden
name of that of a previous husband. Gardner was always a property owner.
How he managed to sell properties without a wife releasing her dower
rights I'll never know!!!!! 


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