Thanks so much for trying. I always told my best friend I would do genealogy with "when that day comes when Jesus comes back and we meet our ancestor's, I am going to slap Abe and ask him why he was so hard to find." I have traced a lot of my other lines to royalty and another has been traced back to Adam. There are several different spellings for Pinkley and Abe & Rachel's son, Benjamin Franklin Pinkley married Mary Elizabeth Patty and they ended up in Joseph, Wallowa, Oregon where they are buried. I love a challenge, but let me tell you, after this long with Abe, it is more than a challenge.

Here is my blog (as of present)
I am still in the midst of locating Abe Pinkley, but I have found out that A., Allen, Alen, or Abe Pinkley had a sibling named Benjamin Franklin Pinkley who was a doctor. Abe also had a son named Benjamin Franklin Pinkley who is buried in Joseph, Wallowa, Oregon and my ancestor. I am trying to locate a death certificate now on A. Pinkley. I do have his son's death certificate and all it has is the last name of Pinkley for the father and he was born in Indiana. The mother has listed Merritt, I am guessing a maiden name, and doesn't say where she was born. My question is if Rachel Ann Myers was married after Benjamin Franklin Pinkley died, where does Merritt fit into it?

I got to reading this post after it was already posted and it now really doesn't make sense to me because Rachel Ann Myers was the wife of A. Pinkley, not Benjamin Franklin Pinkley the son. So if Rachel was married after Abe died, I have yet to hear the name Merritt.