In a message dated 12/18/98 12:58:35 AM, you wrote: <<Bettye, Which Mrs Harris are you referring to? I have a collateral line of Harris in Drew Co - they came from Talapoosa Co, AL ca 1848 and settled near the Mt Pleasant Methodist Campground. The Harris family I am speaking of was James Thomas Harris, b 1825 d 1868 (buried @ Campground), his wife (nee Sarah BASSETT) and their descendants, Annah America (m Edward L McKEOWN), Daniel (m Della BISHOP), James T (jr), Wilburn, Arminta (m Armstead HILLIARD***), and John C. amy >> *** Peggy Hall Calk's line AMY , The journal came from Peggy Hall Calk , living in Stoutland, Mo; It was written by Doris Hilliard dau. of Armistead Dandridge Hillard & Arminta Rebecca Harris Hilliard & was partially told to her by one of the children of Armistead Dandridge & Suvilla Pearson Woodward Hilliard ( I think) (so it says on the paper.) Sarah Bassett Harris Aig 26, 1828 James thomas Harris Nov 15, 1825 had seven children: Amaris Anamerica Daniel Clower James Thomas (bachelor Mary Elizabeth (died infancy William Blakey (Pine Bluff Arminta Rebecca John Jacob Arminta Rebecca was Mamma...(in this journal) her grandmother Jane Harris came to Tallapoosa, AL as a widow with two sons, James Thomas & Joseph Harris. Mamma's mother Sarah Bassett married James Thomas Harris at Tallopoosa AL. Uncle Dan Harris and Aunt Annie McKeown were born there before the family moved to AR. Grandma Jane Harris came with Grandma & Grandpa Harris to AR. Mamma's grandfather & grandmother Bassett, James Kirby Bassett and Rebecca Clower Bassett were both born & married at Tallapoosa AL. they had seven girls and two boys: Armanthy, Mariam, Sarah (Harris) Rebecca ( Aunt Della's mother, Nancy, Amirite, Mozelle (cousin Will Coker's mother, Johnathan, & James Kilby. All of these moved to Drew County and each lived to be old--Grandma Harris 79 yrs. The BASSETT & CLOWER & HARRIS families came to AR by wagon train afterr the Indian Wars (Chferokee?) in AL. They first stopped at Campground. The CLOWER family settled there and the BASSETT & HARRIS families went on to Rock Springs. Grandpa Bassett bought the place that Uncle Jim & Aunt Ann CLEGG BASSETT lived and died on. Gp & Gm BASSETT lived there until their death. Uncle Jim took over the place--gin, store & acreage. Gm HARRIS was a tall, large but not fat woman. She had blue eyes & red hair. Most of the Bassett family had red hair, but no freckles. She was deeply religious, a prominent member of the Methodist Church at the Camp Graound, where her membership, as well as most of her family, remained until her death. She was surrounded with plenty, fine stock, stallion, buggy horses, riding horses, etc. Fine Jersey cows, berkshire hogs, grey brama chicken, turkeys, fifty bee gums, sheep, a large orchard, fine apple orchard, plum thickets, as well as other fruit. Gp HARRIS naturalized l'shallots in his apple orchard where they grew until after I was large enough to remember gathering them for Gm to put in some guinea dressing. She was a famous cook. That's where Ollie & Mamma got their talent. Her home was in the midst of great all hardwood forest. Her grandchildren are today still using her method of curing hams and bacon, sausage, lard, barrels of ribbon can syrup (sarghum was a disgrace), large stone jars full of apple, peach, crab apple preserves and honey in the comb. She tied the tops of the jars with brown paper. She bought green coffee, parched it herself and ground it in a mill fastened to the wall. She had a good garden, growing the first "love apples" in her community and a yard full of flowers. She was long on erbs; sage, mint, catnip, basil (I can smell it yet), yellow dock and calamis root, slippery elm, black bow, also mullen and smart weed. These erbs were used mostly for medicine, and almost entirely by the natives of the community for what ailed them. She was long on doctors and their saddle-bag pills. Her home was a mecca for people throughout that section. She gave advice freely, but also gave to all who came & went. Gm HARRIS waws the best natured woman in the world. She sat by the fireplace in an old fan-backed rocker, with a cusion of briar stitched peices in the bottom. Her Bible, hymn book, almanac, & Methodist literature lay on a spool table near by. On the mantle was large Seth Thomas clock that you wound by pulling down the weights, and a palm leafed fan that was bound in black velvet ribbon. She kept an open and shut fan in the top of her trunk to carry to church. She slept on a spool bed. Between her house and Uncle William Woodwards was the famous pigeon roost, where Mamma & Papa remembers seeing them by the thousands in their field is a fault in the earth's surface. It was behind this bluff that the people of the community hid their stock when the "Yankees" came near. The ground is covered with rocks on Gm's old place. They could never get good water, as in most parts of the country. They bought this place and moved there in Nov 1854. They are buried at Campground, as well as Uncle John & Jim. Gm Woodward, Uncle Isaac Woodward, Uncle William C. Woodward, Uncle Isaac Hilliard, Aunt Mary B. "Mollie" Reep/Reap Woodward are buried at Rock Springs where their church membership was as well as Mamma & Papa. Well thats the part that relates to your BASSETT & HARRIS Families. Wish it had contained more of my CLOWER'S who stayed in Camp Ground! Bettye Hogue Bond