In a message dated 6/15/2012 9:56:17 A.M. Central Daylight Time, marybill60@att.net writes: I may never know who was the father of my Archibald Harris born ca1770's in NC, and died before 1830 in Fayette County, Illinois. But I keep searching anyway. He was an ordained Baptist preacher. Spent time in Fayette Co., Kentucky 1801-1809; Christian Co., Kentucky 1810-1817; Jefferson Co., Illinois 1817-1826; Fayette Co., Illinois 1826 when he ceased to make records. Regards, Mary If your Harris ancestor was a minister in the Fayette Co., KY area, you might try locating the 'Draper Manuscript Collection', Series CC (Kentucky Papers) by Lyman Draper. [Use WorldCat _http://www.worldcat.org/_ (http://www.worldcat.org/) to locate a library]. Another researcher pointed me in that direction and I found an obscure notation in Vol.11:297 that broke my brick wall on my GG-Grandmother, Eliza Isabella (Harris) GIBBS. She was the daughter of Edward HARRIS, Jr. & Elizabeth CAMPBELL. Elizabeth Campbell was the daughter of Robert Campbell & Rebecca WALLACE. Elizabeth (Campbell) Harris' brother was John Poage Campbell, a well known traveling minister of his time, b. 1767, Augusta Co., VA, d. 3 Nov. 1814, Chillicothe, OH. >From my notes for John P. Campbell: Annals of Augusta County from 1726 to 1871 by Waddell (Second Ed., 1902) p. 259 "Thomas Poage son of John Sr. was a promising young minister, who died in 1793. He had recently married a Miss Jane Watkins, to whom and his brother John, he left his estate. The witnesses to the will were the Rev. William Wilson and the Rev. John Poage Campbell. The latter and John Poage were appointed executors. Mr Campbell's name was originally simply John Campbell but he added the name Poage on account of his devotion to his friend, Thomas Poage." p. 314 "The Rev. John Poage Campbell, was born in Augusta 1767, and when about fifteen years of age removed with his father to Kentucky. He subsequently studied with the Rev Archibald Scott, in his native county, and graduated at Hampden-Sidney College in 1790. Having been licensed to preach in 1792 he was for a time associated with the Rev William Graham as pastor of Lexington and other congregation. In 1795 he removed to Kentucky, an d on the 4th of November 1814 died near Chillicothe, Ohio. Dr. Dwight of Yale College, pronounced Mr Campbell a remarkably accomplished scholar and divine." A Google search will provide more on John Poage Campbell as well as Lyman Draper. Annals of Augusta Co., VA is available on Internet Archive Digital Library _http://archive.org/index.php_ (http://archive.org/index.php) Good luck with your search. Jane