This is pretty much the same account I posted in late June, so most of you may have seen it already. My Harkeys descend from Daniel David Harkey (a grandson of "Old" Martin and son of Old Martin's eldest son, John), who was born in 1797 in Mecklenburg Co NC. Daniel David removed from NC to Wilkes Co. GA, where he married Mary Ann (Betty) BANKSTON in Dec 1822. In the late 1840s they began moving westward. In MS, in 1850 (according to Lora Harkey Scott's article), he caught gold fever and decided to go to Colorado. 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, all of Daniel David HARKEY descendants lived mostly within the bounds of Dunklin County, Missouri. Daniel David had nine sons (if he had daughters, none survived past infancy). All of the sons moved to Dunklin County and most of them lived to raise families, and so, as you can imagine, Dunklin County, like Pope and Yell counties in Arkansas, is full of HARKEYs. Daniel gave land for and helped build Harkey's Chapel, the first Methodist church in Dunklin Co. The story is that he also brought the first cotton seed to Missouri. 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). My mother'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. 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 stay up late. Like all the other Harkeys, I'd like to know where we came from and how we sort out in North America. 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? Alma Roark Johnson [email protected]