Pat and List-- Pat, thanks for following up on the John HARKEY and Christina BEVER family. There's a lot of information in your posting, and I've been looking through old files trying to make connections and corrections. LAND SALE DOCUMENT You refer to "Book 34 page 18: Aug. 4 1837." What is the name of the book, and (if it isn't part of the book name) what is the county? I recall, from your earlier posting about Reuben HARKEY, that you no longer have the original land sale document that you cited, but I hope you can clear up my uncertainty about the notes you made from it. You say that "Christopher, Dawalt, Catharine, Jesse, Esther, Susanna Harkey, & Margaret & Daniel Frick" let Jacob Earnhart have their interest in some tracts of land, but that "Ruben, Catharine, Jesse, Esther, John and Suzanna and John Harkey, didn't (written in ink, sign?,) the deed." If the birth dates I gathered for those children are anywhere near correct, only Christopher HARKEY and Dawalt HARKEY and Margaret (and husband) FRICK would have been old enough to sign a legal document in 1837--or am I wrong about that? Was a person named who was authorized to sign away the minors' interest in the land? And if someone was so entitled, why don't Ruben's and John's names appear among those selling their interest in the land? And, last, you mention *two* Johns who didn't sign. I know only of John Weilie. CHRISHUA HARKEY in 1840 CENSUS Thanks for the full census entry for Chrishua HARKY. I had only the name from the index. But for some reason I thought that Chrishua was a *masculine* name, along the lines of Joshua, Elijah, and Micajah. Do you have any idea who she is? I've dithered around so long that it's almost 4:00 a.m.! I hope this posting isn't too muddleheaded! Alma