Greetings, I am attempting to research an ancestor, Samuel Overton Harris, b. about 1818 in either TN or AR and who died perhaps 1836-1839 in Fayetteville, AR. He had married an Elizabeth or Bettie (LNUK) and they had 2 children while in Washington Co., Emily Jane Harris and Samuel Isabell Harris (my 2nd great grandmother who married Willis Casey in Texas in 1856). I have a clipping from a Fayetteville newspaper saying a Col. S.O. Harris died in Dec 1836 (Dec 11?), but am not sure this is the right S.O. Harris (Colonels usually aren't 18), and there are land deeds at ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ar/washington/land/washingt.txt showing a Samuel O. Harris having land deals in the 1838-1839 time frame. Samuel died young, and his wife Bettie Harris remarried a Willis H. Bruce, and they moved on to Bell Co., TX in about 1846-7. The Bruce family had more kids, but I'm chiefly concerned in finding out more about Samuel O. Harris, where he may be buried in Washington Co., AR, who were his parents, and what his wife Bettie (Elizabeth?)'s maiden name was and her background. Census records later on indicate her place of birth as TN. She was born about 1810 and died (unclear when) in Bell Co., TX. Thanks, dlc