Harper Migration Patterns (Fascinating Topic): 1. Deed Book 19, Halifax Co,NC,1802-1807: "Jelt" Harper of Green Co., GA, son of Anne Downs & Issac Harper, sold land land inherited from his father to brother, Tyrell in Halifax County, NC. 2. One Harper Researcher, Bonnie J. Sell, has done quite a bit on Harpers as they moved from VA-KY-IN-IL-IA-TX. She noted that as they moved from VA to TX, members of the family stopped off , or went in different directions. 3. For the Raph Harper line, see Joe Payne's homepage. 4. One of the "SC" Harpers alerted me to the "German Harpers", formerly Herber. They are in Pendleton Co.,WVA and are discussed in Marsha L. Fuller's book, THE HARPER FAMILY HISTORY, 1713-1995. Charlotte Gibson (AZ)has also researched this family. 5.Joseph Doyle Harper has his line from Lenoir Co, NC to Pulaski, KY-IN-OH. I have been compiling info on all Harpers I could find hoping to make connections. Not easy! Most Harpers who even bother to study the line seem to get locked-into one line. I have been careful to document my data hoping to make connections. Hopefully, more Harpers will begin publishing their data so we can share. I have been developing a bibliography of Harper publications. One interesting 'Chart" in the VA ARchives was "The Happer Family" from Norfolk. My next venture will be to check out that info. I think it is a spelling error. (Anybody else see that?) With regards, Nancy Harper Vick ================= At 04:20 PM 4/16/99 -0700, you wrote: >HARPER-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 40 > >Today's Topics: > #1 RE: Harper Family-Nash County, NC ["Albert" <[email protected]>] > >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. > >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 23:06:54 -0700 >From: "Albert" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: Harper Family-Nash County, NC >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Nancy, (Harper) Vick >Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering what the Migration pattern is to your >Harpers. From these below to the present? Mine is currently in TX via >Louisiana. A name that creeps up in our line frequently is Ralph & Robert & >Joseph. If nothing else I'd like to keep it for the future. >Thanks! Janina (Harper) Castillo > >-----Original Message----- >From: E. T. Schmitt [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 12:37 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Harper Family-Nash County, NC > >Raph is probably the related to the name that is more often spelled Ralph. >In Britain it is largely pronounced as if it were spelled Rafe. > >At 10:19 AM 4/14/1999 -0700, you wrote: >>Would like to share info. with anyone searching these families! >>While searching in the CH, I found a 1878 will by JOSEPH K. HARPER who >>mentions children: Lafayette, Raph,Robert, Henry, Spencer, J.(Jeannett) >>Louisa, and Frances Ann. The name RAPH is interesting in that the Yorkshire >>England line that I found is from RAPH. >> Does anyone recognize this family? >>Nancy Harper Vick >> > > >==== HARPER Mailing List ==== > HARPER Family Mail List Archives: > courtesy of Rootsweb, our gracious host! >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Just type in the mail list's name: HARPER > ____________________________________________________________________________ __________ Dr. Nancy Harper Vick, Professor Emerita of Education, Longwood College;1703 Gilliam Drive, Farmville, VA 23901-2359 Phone: 804-392-8359; Family Histories: Harper, McLean, Smith(VA-NC),Hollingsworth,Fountain, Snow, Gibson,Vick & Taylor