This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Harper, Byars,walker, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RS.2ADE/1207 Message Board Post: I am searching for James W.Harper b.1829 mar.Sarah Drucilla Byars abt.1848 had the following childen: Mary Elizabeth b.1849, Martha Emoline b.1851 m William Benjamin Taylor was a widow by 1900 census later married Oscar Tittle, Sarah Eliza b.7-30-1853 d.5-24-1926 buried mt.Willing cemetery, married david G. Love, Nancy y. Harper b.1853 no other record found,Thaddius W. Harper b.abt1855 (must be a Byars-Walker connection) ,Susannah F. Harper b.abt1858, Sarah was a widow from Civil War, the 1900 census says she had two more children, but the 20 year span of census omissions (1880-1900) children can be born and married and girls are impossible to find with marriage knowledge. Also, the 1870 census proves a lot of people avoided the 1870 census for fear of being found and killed by confederates, especially if you fought for the union. Most Northeast Alabama men fought for the union. Some of the Harpers were on both sides because of the Conscription Law. In other words"they were ! made" to fight for the Confederacy. I would greatly like to hear from anyone connected to James W. Harper. I will remit for your information. Mary Hanson