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The record you have of a child born in 1805 in Fountain County is probably an error.
Fountain County didn't become a county until 1826 and Indiana didn't become a
state until 1816. Prior to 1820 there were almost no pioneers living in the Fountain
County area. All Indiana marriages prior to 1850 can be viewed online. I'm not sure
what the link is, but if you go to
www.ingenweb.net you can click on County links and go
to the Unknown county and that site gives a link for it. If the marriage actually occurred
prior to 1805 you won't find it in Indiana, you might try Ohio or Kentucky, I
don't know if marriages were performed in Indiana before it became a state in 1816,
but if they were those marriages were probably recorded somewhere else.