This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: james5420 Surnames: Garrison, Roberts Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.garrison/3512.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I don't know if you have seen this, but it is a possibility. From: RECORD AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY of the GARRISON FAMILY of NORTH CAROLINA and THEIR DESCENDANTS by Thomas Garrison Stansberry. The original document is in the possession of Verna Noble Woodman, Jerseyville, Illinois. Copied July, 1961. by I. Pedicord. "James Garrison, the fourth son of Thomas Garrison and Comfort, his wife, married a Miss Anderson of Virginia, sister of his brother Thomas' wife. He emigrated from Buncomb county, North Carolina to the Yellowbanks Kentucky about the time his brother Thomas did and was engaged in the horse trade to the South and about the third drove he took South he sold his entire drove to a man in South Carolina, on time. He soon found, however, that the man's wife, he had sold to, held all the property in her name and he lost his whole drove of horses, and did not return home for five years. He finally returned to Kentucky and paid for his horses and sent to Virginia for his wife, who had given him up for dead and had returned to her father in Virginia. She met him at his brother Thomas Garrison's who had emigrated to Illinois in his absence. While at the dinner table shortly after his wife returned from Virginia he spoke to his wife calling her a different name than her own Christi! an name. After dinner was over his brother Thomas took him aside and called to his mind the incident of the name and asked him to give an explanation of the whole matter. His brother James said he had been swindled out of his horses by a woman and he had made it back of a woman and that was all the explanation he gave. He then took his family and went to Arkansas and that is the last account I had of him. He had a brother living at Crockets Bluff, Arkansas many years. Perhaps he settled near him and lived in obscurity the remainder of his life, but he may have descendants in the state. It is unpleasant to me to write the facts in this case but as I am writing history, it must be true to facts as they came to the writer of this autobiography of the Garrison family of North Carolina. There appears to be some extreme circumstances connected with this case, but a thousand wrongs will not make one right. This explanation perhaps will set some of the descendants of Absolom G! arrison right on a point referred to me three years ago. It was not as Mr. Johnson was impressed. The simple fact in the case is: He married a rich widow in the South, took enough of her estate in his hands, left her, paid his debt, Took his wife and went to the wilds of Arkansas." Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

I wonder what Thomas Garrison this was? Do you know? Thanks for sharing this with everyone...Bev -----Original Message----- From: garrison-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:garrison-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of gc-gateway@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:35 AM To: GARRISON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GARRISON] James GARRISON (Mason Co., KY. 1830 ?) This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: james5420 Surnames: Garrison, Roberts Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.garrison/3512.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I don't know if you have seen this, but it is a possibility. From: RECORD AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY of the GARRISON FAMILY of NORTH CAROLINA and THEIR DESCENDANTS by Thomas Garrison Stansberry. The original document is in the possession of Verna Noble Woodman, Jerseyville, Illinois. Copied July, 1961. by I. Pedicord. "James Garrison, the fourth son of Thomas Garrison and Comfort, his wife, married a Miss Anderson of Virginia, sister of his brother Thomas' wife. He emigrated from Buncomb county, North Carolina to the Yellowbanks Kentucky about the time his brother Thomas did and was engaged in the horse trade to the South and about the third drove he took South he sold his entire drove to a man in South Carolina, on time. He soon found, however, that the man's wife, he had sold to, held all the property in her name and he lost his whole drove of horses, and did not return home for five years. He finally returned to Kentucky and paid for his horses and sent to Virginia for his wife, who had given him up for dead and had returned to her father in Virginia. She met him at his brother Thomas Garrison's who had emigrated to Illinois in his absence. While at the dinner table shortly after his wife returned from Virginia he spoke to his wife calling her a different name than her own Christi! an name. After dinner was over his brother Thomas took him aside and called to his mind the incident of the name and asked him to give an explanation of the whole matter. His brother James said he had been swindled out of his horses by a woman and he had made it back of a woman and that was all the explanation he gave. He then took his family and went to Arkansas and that is the last account I had of him. He had a brother living at Crockets Bluff, Arkansas many years. Perhaps he settled near him and lived in obscurity the remainder of his life, but he may have descendants in the state. It is unpleasant to me to write the facts in this case but as I am writing history, it must be true to facts as they came to the writer of this autobiography of the Garrison family of North Carolina. There appears to be some extreme circumstances connected with this case, but a thousand wrongs will not make one right. This explanation perhaps will set some of the descendants of Absolom G! arrison right on a point referred to me three years ago. It was not as Mr. Johnson was impressed. The simple fact in the case is: He married a rich widow in the South, took enough of her estate in his hands, left her, paid his debt, Took his wife and went to the wilds of Arkansas." Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GARRISON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message