Hello again, Harkeys I posted my descendancy chart before Craig Couch's "message #1" arrived and didn't think to introduce myself. My Harkeys descend from Daniel David Harkey (a grandson of Martin and son of Martin's oldest son, John), who was born in 1797 in Mecklenburg Co NC. Daniel David moved from NC to GA and then to MS, where in 1850 (according to Lora Harkey Scott's article) he caught gold fever and decided to go to California. However, when he passed through Dunklin County, in Missouri's boot-heel (the part that originally had been part of Arkansas), he found the land so bountiful that he moved his family there in 1850-51. From 1851 until about 1936, my HARKEY ancestors lived mostly within the bounds of Dunklin County, Missouri. Daniel David allegedly had nine sons. All of them moved to Dunklin County and most of them lived to raise families, and so, as you can imagine, the county is full of HARKEYs. My father, Bill ROARK, however, took his young wife, Neva Alice Evelyn HARKEY, and baby to California in 1936 (and I, the second child, was born on the way, in Arizona). Mama's HARKEY family soon joined us in Napa, CA, and we stayed there through World War II. Then, in 1947, my father decided to move to Alaska. Again, the HARKEYs came, too, some with us, others shortly after. And so, when you see AK in my descendancy chart, it is not an error. I don't mean Arkansas, I do mean Alaska. I left Alaska in 1961 and have lived in Seattle ever since. I was a research publications editor at the University of Washington until I retired a little early in 1993, and now I write short stories and just fart around. Two children: Rachel, 28, and Matthew, 30, both living nearby. In joining the HARKEY list, I hope to get a sharper and more complete picture of the HERCHE/HARKEY/etc. family that landed in Philadelphia and spread out from there. The way they spread fascinates me--who was where, why they left, where they went, and who went with them. I like descendancy charts well enough, but I love documents, especially wills, and I am hoping someone belongs to a HARKEY family whose members were literate and kept old letters or diaries he/she will share. One very specific question I have is this: Daniel David HARKEY's (b 1797) father, John, died in 1821 in NC. What happened to Daniel David's mother, Elizabeth? JH (Joseph Harkey) gives a specific death date for Elizabeth in 1863, but he doesn't say WHERE she died. Did she leave with one of her children, or did she remain in NC? I didn't mean to be so long-winded, but then I never do. Alma Roark Johnson [email protected]