Dear Peggy - this is a stab in the dark. At one time, says a noted lecturer and genealogist of Utah, Augusta Co., VA was a huge county.  A work based on some court records of early Augusta Co. is online (rootsweb, in fact). There are three volumes and each volume has its own index.  For Vol. I, you may have to go to the 2nd or 3rd page to find the link to the index. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County 1745-1800 by Lyman Chalkleywww.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chalkley - Cached Augusta Co. was the far western part of Virginia and encompassed the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and what is now West Virginia (I am told).  People migrating from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and other places may have wintered here for a time.  (No freeways in those days.  Movement very slow, and someone had to raise crops to feed the humans and the livestock if any). I visted there in October--beautiful farms reminding me of Amish country in Pennsylvania. According to Dr. George K. Schweitzer's little genealogical guide called Virginia Genealogical Research [Knoxville, TN:  Published by author, 1995] there are some other histories of Augusta Co., which may have been digitized by now.  (Use your trusty search engine google.com to learn whether they have been digitized.)  If your library or a neighboring library has the database HeritageQuest, search that database also. J.L. Peyton History of Augusta County [Bridgewater,VA, Yost & Sons 1953 [1882] J. A. Waddell, Annals of August County [Bridgewater, VA 1958 [1902] C. E. Kemper, Historical Notes from the Records of August County [Lancaster, PA, 1921] If you are near an LDS family history center, you can order the microfiche for Chalkley's work from the FH Library in Salt Lake City, but check the files at your LDS center first.  They may already be there--the microfiche listed below--6 of them. E.W.Wallace Lyman Chalkly, Also on microfiche. Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1985. 6 microfiches ; 11 x 15 cm. Family History Library US/CAN Fiche 6051323  ________________________________ From: Peggy Rendleman <pejere75@hotmail.com> To: "harris-hunters@rootsweb.com" <harris-hunters@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 11:00 AM Subject: [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Some Notes on Agnes McCord - 2nd wife of Christopher Harris of Madison Co., KY Thought I would interject some info about my line to see if anyone has information and/or suggestions that could help me in my research.  I have hit the proverbial brick wall with my great-great grandfather George Washington Harris, born 1818 in Waynesboro, Augusta County, VA.  I located an older brother for George, Alambert W. Harris, born 1816 also in Wayneboro, Augusta County, VA.  No parents have been found for these two ancestors of mine.  I found these two brothers in Indiana in the mid-1800s where they both married and subsequently relocated to Southern Illinois where they settled.  None of the census, marriage documents or death records I have found provide information regarding the parents of these two people other than that they were born in Virginia. George W. Harris married Louisa (Humphrey) Allsop (sic), a widow with two children.  His children three were named Thomas Louis, Commodore Perry and Katherine. Alambert W. Harris married Eliza Blake.  His known children were Walter and Sarah. Thomas Louis Harris never married (served in Civil War). Commodore Perry Harris married Parasidia Stacy.  Their children were Amy Leslie, Annie, Lorenzo, William Tecumseh, Bertha Frances, Jessie, Esther, and Walter and May.  Amy Leslie Harris married George B. Aldridge.  Their children were Florence May, Agnes Augusta, John Perry, Hazel Estelle, Thomas Owen and Paul Beason.  My mother is Agnes Augusta (Aldridge) Modglin.  I always wondered where the Augusta in her name came from until I discovered the birthplace of her great grandfather.  George W. Harris died in 1901, two years after my mother was born in 1899.  I am wondering if my line possibly may have been connected with the Agnes McCord Harris line. I have been unable to discover any credible link to any other group of Harrises, and my line "daughtered" out a couple of generations ago. Any suggestions would be appreciated.  I am 81 years old and probably don't have a lot of time left to solve this mystery. P.J.Rendleman                         ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HARRIS-HUNTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message