This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Harrison, Nowland, Sampson, Eskew, LaMaster Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jhh.2ACIB/5545 Message Board Post: According to the bible records in my family, Audrey Elizabeth Harrison was born November 8, 1840, in Missouri. More specifically, she was born, apparently, in St. Charles County, Missouri. She married Ferdinand Nowland on February 21, 1861, in Carroll County, Missouri. This is where it gets interesting. Family letters from descendants who remembered "Grandma Audrey" indicate that she had a sister named Sophia, who was married to an Eskew. (They also remembered a set of twins in the Harrison family and thought that Audrey Elizabeth Harrison was one of a twin, but weren't quite sure of that). When I pulled Ferdinand Nowland's civil war pension record, he chatted in a couple of his affidavits about fighting alongside his brother-in-law Davis K. Sampson (called "DK"). Ferdinand specifically stated that DK's wife was Sophia Harrison, and that she was a sister-in-law to him. The files went on to verify that after DK died during the Civil War (and was buried by his brother-in-law Ferdinand Nowland), Sophia Harrison (Sampson) married a 2nd time to Daniel P. Eskew. From the later census, it also looks like that later siblings of Sophia Harrison, (William and Nancy Harrison), were possibly twins. Sophia Harrison is listed as being a daughter of William Nicholas Harrison and Nancy LaMaster, in the census...which would make the parentage of Audrey Elizabeth Harrison the same. However, Audrey never showed up in the census, and I have nothing to prove she was a daughter... other than this round-about way through the information in the letters. Does anyone have any other information about Audrey Elizabeth Harrison's parentage? I have that William N. Harrison was born in about 1818 in Virginia...and that Nancy LaMaster was born in St. Charles Co., Missouri in about 1812. I've got pictures of "Grandma" Audrey Elizabeth Harrison (Nowland) and some of those pictures show her with these grand-children and great-grandchildren... who were eventually the authors of these letters.