Hello List, Some time back I sent a question to the list about the death date of Israel Mathias Harkey of San Saba. I found his widow, Catherine Furr Harkey, on the 1880 census living alone and listed as a widow. I found the following information today in some of the old papers I received from O. B. Harkey in 1975: "Israel Mathias Harkey born at Ashville near the present site of Charlotte North Carolina on June 9, 1797 and died March 3, 1876 at his home in what is Harkeyville in San Saba County, TX and is buried at the current site of Rogan Field (where the high school plays football). Mathias Harkey owned and operated a general merchandising store at Pleasant Valley, Arkansas after moving there in 1848 from Stanley County, NC. He married on March 6, 1821 to Catherine Furr. She was born on October 9, 1891 in Cabarrus Co., NC and died on July 20, 1895 at her daughter's, Catherine McDaniel, home in TX.". I do not know who erected his tombstone, but it appears the dates on it are wrong. Flora