Dear Harkeys, I wish I had paid more attention in the past to the ARK > San Saba families, because I am not playing catch-up very well while trying to trace Victor Harkey's father and grandfather. Can anyone unknot this latest kink? Victor said that after his father, Robert HARKEY, died in Ada OK in 1921, Victor's mother, Tes, took Victor to Crockett Co. TX to live with Robert's father, John Tucker HARKEY. Tes eventually returned to her family in the Choctaw Nation, but Victor remained (in Crockett Co.?) with his grandfather. I hoped that I could trace John Tucker HARKEY's family beginning with the 1920 Crockett Co. census and working back. Nothing turned out the way I wanted it to, but I am wondering whether the Crockett Co. HARKEYs are an offshoot of the San Saba Co. HARKEYs and whether Victor's grandfather might be one of them. Specifically, does anyone have information on the ancestry and descendants of Joseph M. and Henrietta HARKEY, who were living in San Saba in 1880? I'll take the censuses year by year. // 1920 // I hoped to find John "Tucky" HARKEY in the 1920 Crockett Co. TX census Soundex, but I did not--at least it isn't obvious that I did. What I did find were two HARKEY entries which in the census would appear on the same page: 1920 TX Crockett Co. ED 24-8 (Soundex) HARKEY, JIM 38 TX --Eula wife 19 TX --Lee William son 2 3/12 TX --Koeke Kennie dau 1 2/12 TX 1920 TX Crockett Co. ED 24-8 (Soundex) HARKEY, LEIGH boarder [age n.r.] (enum w Charlie Callahan) When I look up these households in the actual census, I will look closely at the name of the child, Koeke Kennie. If that is how it is spelled, could it be a Choctaw name? // 1910 // I then looked for a HARKEY in the 1910 Crockett Co. Soundex. I found one person: 1910 TX Crockett Co. ED 32-2 (Soundex) HARKEY, LEE B. 17 (enum. with Homer J. Tippett) // 1900 // I found no HARKEY family in the 1900 Crockett Co. census, but the given name "Lee" seems to persist in this family, so I searched the TX census for any HARKEY family with a 7-to-9-year-old boy named Lee. I found such a family in San Saba Co.--Joseph and Henrietta HARKEY--but the family were away from home (visiting Joseph's sister's family, judging by the David & Sarah HALL census entry) and the census-taker got his sketchy information from the neighbors: 1900 TX San Saba Co. 2 Just. Pct. (1668 2 193), hh 259-263 HARKEY, HENRIETT* head "male" 1848 52 m  5ch/5liv --James son 1881 19 s TX AR --Jefferson son 1886 14 s TX AR --Lee son 1892 8 s TX AR [Census taker's note: "Information as to names and ages obtained from a neighbor, also acreage & produce. These people are away from home and this information is best I can get."] Although the census index gives "Henry???" and the entry says "male," it is probably Henrietta, a female, because the number of children born/living is given. Henrietta's husband, Joseph M. HARKEY, is listed in David HALL's household (David's wife is Joseph's sister, Sarah Caroline): 1900 TX San Saba Co. 2 Just. Pct. (1668 2 189), hh 192-196 HALL, David head May 1852 438 m25 TX TN -- stock farmer --Sarah C. wife Mar 1857 43 m25 10ch/6liv TX SC VA --Essie M. dau Mar 1882 18 s TX TX TX --James M. son Oct 1885 14 s TX TX TX --Burney son Aug 1891 8 s TX TX TX --David C. son Mar 1894 6 s TX TX TX --Minor son Jun 1897 2 s TX TX TX HARKEY, JOSEPH M. bro-in-law Dec 1851 48 m AR SC VA // 1880 // [Taken from the LDS CD-ROM, not from the actual census] 1880 TX San Saba Co. 2 pct. (T9-1326 p447A) HARKEY, Joseph head 28 m AR NC -- --Henrietta wife 29 m AR -- -- keeping house --David brother 14 s TX NC -- works on farm --Moses J. brother 12 s TX NC -- works on farm --John David son 2 s TX AR AR --Samuel J. son 1 s TX AR AR --Sarah E. dau 4/12 s TX AR AR MAN, Granville stepson 25 s KY KY KY --Sallie stepdau 20 s KY KY KY HALL, Margaret niece 9 s TX TN AR --Tenn niece 7 s TX TN AR --John M. nephew 5 s TX TN AR CONCLUSION Except for a presence in 1920 Crockett Co. TX, none of the above matches any of Victor's clues! But the possibly incomplete or incorrect information on Joseph and Henrietta's household in 1900 leaves a door, well, not quite open, but slightly ajar. Any ideas? One last question. I came across a Yell Co. marriage with names that reminded me of the census entries above. Does anyone recognize this marriage? E. Tenora HARKEY m Joseph C. LEIGH 30 Sep 1878 Yell Co. AR E. Tenora HARKEY may have died not long after marriage, because I found a Joseph C. LEIGH in the 1900 census, age 47, living in Dardenelles, Yell Co., with a different wife of 17 years. It never ends . . . . Alma Roark Johnson