In a message dated 3/5/02 13:09:25, bird@glasgow-ky.com writes: << Daniel David Harkey who went to Dunklin Co. MO had a son named William M. Harkey. William had 3 wives and I had them listed as Mary Donaldson, Jerusha Mizell and Fanny Davidson. No problem there but I had a Daughter LULA Harkey born 1778 [1878] listed with Fanny Davidson as her mother----- In the 1880 census Lula is listed age 2 living with her grandparents DONALDSON. Did I transpose the names when I wrote them in and his first wife was really Mary Davidson and Fanny was really Donaldson??????????? >> Mary, William M. HARKEY, b 1829 GA, did have three wives, but in a different order from what you have: He married (1) Jerusha Adeline MIZELL, b 1837 TN, d 6 Nov 1876 MO. Six children b bet 1855 and abt 1874; William, Street, Mary B., Newton, Ralph, and Rosa. He married (2) Mary DONALDSON. One child: Lula M. HARKEY, b Jul 1878 He married (3) (1 May 1879) Fanny DAVIDSON. May have had one child: Ethel HARKEY [ref. Lora Harkey Scott, "The Harkeys of Dunklin Co."] Since William did not marry Miss DAVIDSON until 1879, Lula, b 1878, must be Mary (DONALDSON) HARKEY's daughter. The appearance of 2-year-old Lula HARKEY in her grandfather DONALDSON's household is one of those duplications that occur occasionally in the census, because Lula is also reported in the household of her father and his third wife: 1880 MO Dunklin Co. Cotton Hill Twp, ED 42-11, #72-73 HARKEY, Wm. M. 51 GA NC GA dry goods merchant --Fannie wife 20 MO MO MO --Ralf son 9 MO GA TN --Rosa dau 6 MO GA TN --Lula dau 2 MO GA TN I couldn't find Wm. M. or Fanny in the 1900 Dunklin Co. MO census when I first looked ten years ago, and I can't find him now. Alma