Hi, everyone, I am researching the family ties of my James G. HARRIS, b. 1831-1834, TN, parents b. SC, or father b. TN & mother b. SC (census conflict.) I have not been able to locate James in 1850. He married in 1857 in Itawamba Co., MS, and 1860-1880 was recorded with his family there. In 1880, living next door to him was an Elvira (or Almira or Eliza?) HARRIS, b. 1815/16, SC, with her son, Robert, b. 1851, AL, and her daughter or daughter-in-law, Mary, b. 1861, AL. (This family does not appear on any census prior to 1880.) There are scattered records for a James M. Harris in Itawamba---recorded on the 1836 Tax List; in1838, he sold some land and was not recorded on the Tax List for that year; was recorded there in 1840, but not 1850 or 1860. Last record of him was in 1877 in Lee Co., MS, where he appeared with several other HARRIS heads of household, including my James G. The 1890 census is destroyed, and that year my James Harris family moved to Indian Territory---I don't know if James d. in MS or out there. James had children: William Henry (mine), Alice, Robert Walker, Idilia Elizabeth, Bertus Clifton, and Flavius O. I note several similar names in Lawrence Co., AL during the years prior to the appearance of my James in MS---particularly James G. HARRIS found in 1850, age 68; William, age 44, b. TN; and James M. Harris, married in Lawrence in 1833 (&? 1838) but not recorded in Lawrence following these records. Does anyone have records for the Harrises of Lawrence? ANY help at all would be greatly appreciated. Pam pamstone@digital.net