While looking on the net last night I remember several Pleasant Harpers listed in the panhandle of FL. Santa Rosa Co. Fl. and Okaloosa Co. FL. Have you looked there. Pleasant is a very unusual name. Hope this helps. Ann [email protected] wrote: > Subject: > > HARPER-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 32 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Re: Full of Harpers [[email protected] (Mary Anne Kbel] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from HARPER-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: Full of Harpers > Date: Mit, 24 Mar 99 18:03:02 -0000 > From: [email protected] (Mary Anne Kbel) > To: [email protected] > > John Harper - in your KY and VA Harpers, do you have any which might link > in with my gggrandfather, John Pleasant Harper. I have no siblings or > parents for her. These Harpers could have come into NE TN from VA (or > elsewhere?): > > John Pleasant Harper and Sarah Forrester are my great, > great-grandparents. According to the application of my grandmother, S. > Emma Harper Schmidt, for membership in the Daughters of the Union > Veterans, Pleasant (as he was apparently called) was born 1825 in Cocke > C, TN. Sometime before his marriage to Sarah Forrester on 5 Oct. 1846, > he moved to Cleveland, Bradley Co, where is was a farmer. Their five > children are: George W. Harper (born 1848); Nancy M. Harper (born 19 Feb > 1850, married John Baty 10 Aug. 1866); my great-grandfather, William Row > Harper (1 March 1851 - 29 March 1912, married Lousina S. Collins 7 Dec. > 1868); Sarah Catherine Harper (born 26 Feb 1858, married Benjamin > Franklin Collins 22 Nov.1877); and John P. Harper (born 21 Sept. 1860). > Pleasant enlisted in Co. E, 4 Reg't (Fed.) East Tenn. Cavalry on 5 > Dec. 1862 in London, Ky. Description: 6 feet, 1 in., fair complexion, > blue eyes, light hair. He was promoted to sergeant already three months > later and was commissioned as 2nd lieutenant on 1 June 1864. Died of > exposure and malnutrition in Stark's Landing near Mobile, Al. > > Any help is appreciate. > > Mary Anne Burkhart Kuebel > Trommstr. 25a > 69483 Wald-Michelbach > Germany