I am pleased to know you have done so much research on your families of Rutherford Co., TN. I cannot criticize any of the searches you have made, but perhaps you have overlooked a resource which MAY further your search for Beverly Harris and his associates. Suggestion: Since your man died in 1849, he MAY (no guarantees in genealogy) appear on the 1850 mortality schedule of Tennessee. I had never used these schedules (I'll tell you more about them later), but a lady helping me with my application for DAR used them, and, lo and behold, she found my newly migrated from-TN-&-KY-to-TX umpteen great-grandmother listed as dying in coastal area of TX. She had died in 1849 soon after migrating--leaving a houseful of orphans (Yes, she was a born Harris with another married name). When I got used to this idea of this new-to-me resource, I searched the mortality schedules myself, and found another ancestor who died in TX, although born in NC. The great thing about these mortality schedules is they give the age of the person, his or her birthplace, the cause of death, the length of the illness, and a few other details, I believe. (I need to refresh my memory and look for some others in these schedules). Where may you find these mortality schedules--at least for 1850 and 1860? If you are near an LDS Family History Center, call them up. Find out their hours of opening and then ask whether they have hundreds of microfiche called AIS = Accelerated Indexing System. At one time, this AIS collection was a part of a start-up packet for new FHCs, but I have been advised this practice has been discontinued. (I am told AIS is on Ancestry.com, but it is not in the format to which I have become accustomed. Besides, unless you have access to Ancestry.com at your FHC, there is probably an additional subscription fee.) There should be a four-page free handout describing the AIS, but you can teach yourself if you have patience. What is AIS? It is a rather comprehensive US census index through the 1850 census, and for some areas of the country, it goes beyond 1850. I do think, however, it has the 1860 mortality schedules. Search 1 is the earliest censuses, with some added tax lists, to make up for missing census years, such as the 1790. Search 2 is the next census, and so on. The mortality schedules are the last searches, if I remember correctly. (There is a high error rate in AIS--duplications, omissions, misspellings, etc., but still it is a useful tool. Lots of professionals use this tool when beginning work for a new client.) Incidentally, it may be well to check out the Harrises in the early AIS Searches to see who [is it whom?] you can spot--and their neighbors. An example: I was trying to verify a linkage between two families named Bedford and Coleman in Missouri. This is not my line, so I had no feel for the migration pattern. However, I first determined when was a likely time for these families to have migrated from KY, and then I checked AIS for that census year. I found some likely candidates, and when I found two of the above named families in the same county in Missouri, I zeroed in on them. I think I may have some clues as to how and WHere to proceed now. I have to see if I can find a marriage record in that county which may confirm that I have the right folks. (Golly, this hobby keeps us searching for new ways to find these folks--in the right place, at the right time. The internet helps, but some of the family history material is cluttered up with secondary and tertiary material and mulltiple distortions, that I find myself getting impatient!) I hope you locate Beverly Harris. As many Harrises as I have researched in the South, including KY, I have not stumbled on that given name! E.W.Wallace