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    1. [HARKEY-L] John Harkey & son, Newman
    2. Flo
    3. Hello list, Is there a descendant of John Harkey, son of Moses I. Harkey and Rhoda Parham Wiggins Harkey, on this list? This John was born about 1865 in Yell County, AR. and he died in 1912. He was fishing with a seine in the Petit Jean River in Arkansas. His boots caught in the net and he drowned. John and Mary Elizabeth Tucker Harkey had four children that died at birth. One of their baby boys, name unknown, is buried at Booneville by his parents graves. I don't know where the other three babies are buried or when they died. I know from an old letter they lost a child on 14 Oct. 1895 and the child is buried in Harkey Valley Cemetery without a marker. I do not know if this was one of the babies his family told me about years ago, or if it was another of his children. His full sister, Lydia Harkey was my grandmother. Years ago I corresponded briefly with one of John's grandsons, John Leach Harkey, II. John Leach Harkey was a son of Newman Defo Harkey and Olive Flora Leach. I would love to make contact with any of the descendants of this family. If any of you are on this list, or if anyone on the list knows where I can reach any of the family please contact me. Thanks, Flora John and Elizabeth later had two sets of twin boys that lived.

    10/31/2001 01:33:29