Alma and List: Your explanation on the date of death for John Harkey being 1826 seems reasonable. I do have a question for you and the list and some more info on the 1830 and 1840 census. I have seen the date of birth for daughter Margaret as Dec 21,1827 (several files on Ancestry.com and Rootsweb) or 1816 (David Cherry, Beaver family researcher quoting baptismal records). 1816 seems more reasonable since I'm assuming that this is the Margaret who was apparently married to Daniel Frick in 1837 per the land transaction that names all the children: Book 34 page 18: Aug. 4 1837, Christopher, Dawalt, Catharine, Jesse, Esther, Susanna Harkey, & Margaret & Daniel Frick ---all of Cabarrus County NC, let Jacob Earnhart of Rowan Co. NC have their interest in the Joshua Calloway tract & other tracts for $18.00 (or $2.00 each) but , Ruben, Catharine, Jesse, Esther, John and Suzanna and John Harkey, didn't (written in ink, sign?,) the deed: being part of 300 acres next Joshua Calloway; 114 acres next Henry Fulenwider, Peter Beaver, George M. Highlick & George Miller: & 11 acres next Henry Fulenwider, witnessed by Deavid Hill, John Earnhart, Levi Trexler and acknowledged before Rufus H. Kilpatrick in Aug 1838. I doubt that Margaret was married at age 9. The Christianah Harkey in the 1830 Cabarrus County NC census p203 had the following in the household: 2 males 5-10 (Jesse 1822, John 1824) 2 males 10-15 (Daywalt 1815, Reuben 1818) 1 male 15-20 (Christopher 1814) 1 female 0-5 (Susannah 1826) 2 females 5-10 (Ester 1822, ?Amelia Catherine 1819?) 1 female 10-15 (Margaret 1816) 1 female 30-40 (Christina 1793) Although not perfect, this comes pretty close to accounting for children of the right age. In 1840 Cabarrus County, there is a Crissey HARKY, female age 40-50 with 2 Males 10-20 and 2 females 10-20 on p5 and a Chrishua HARKY, female age 40-50 with 2 males 10-20 and 2 females 10-15 on p11. Hard to tell which one might be Chistina Beaver as the 1840 census in cabarrus is presented alphabetically. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Junco9@aol.com> To: <HARKEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:28 AM Subject: Re: [HARKEY-L] John Harkey/Christina Beaver > Hi Mary-- > > You asked for a reply to the list about John HARKEY who married Christina > BEAVER. I don't see any reply, so I'll offer what little I have. No one > will confuse it with proof. > > Joseph Harkey's history has the same dates as you do for John HARKEY, but in > my copy of it, where I insert my own notes, after John's death date of 1846 I > added in brackets a different date, so that it now reads "d 21 Feb 1846 > [1826?]. > > I may have arrived at 1826 by looking at the Cabarrus Co. censuses. In 1830 > I did not find a John HARKEY in Cabarrus Co., but I did find a Christianah, > age 30-40, with 5 males ages 5-20 and with 4 females ages 0-15. The youngest > child is a female aged 0-5. > > Also, in 1840 (but looking no further than the census index), I did not find > a John, but I did find a Crissey HARKEY. > > Then, in 1850, Christina is living with her daughter, Susannah McDANIEL. > > The absence of John but the presence of Christina in 1830 and 1840 does > suggest that John died much earlier than 1846. Although no spring chicken, > Christina would still have been of childbearing age in 1830, but by 1830 she > had borne her last child. > > It's not proof, but it is circumstantial evidence. > > Alma > > > ==== HARKEY Mailing List ==== > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.harkey > Enter queries, deeds, pensions, obits etc on this page > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >