This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cole, Harder, Strickland Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/1883.1889.1871.1.1 Message Board Post: Julie, my branch of the family starts with Lomas Christopher Cole and his second wife, Hariet Ann Islip. They had 3 children, Clara Adeline, Charles P. and Lemuel N. Clara Adeline is my g grandmother, she married Ernest Harder, they had 3 children Adeline Yolanda, who married Jerome Marvin Strickland, Rudolph Julius who married Blendena Higgins and Cecil Frazier. Adeline and Jerome had 6 children, Jerome Marvin, Leland Harder, Rober Louis, Mary, Mildred and Ernest Christopher. My father is Jerome Marvin and he and my mother, Gwendolyn Mabel had 3 children Jerome Marvin, Deborah Lynn and myself Patricia Mae Ree. I appreciate the information and thank you again.