Thanks for you reply to my brick wall. One thing of interest is the daughter of my William Harrison who was married to a Margaret had a daughter who was my Great Grandmother named Diana Harrison. She married Robert Kincaid Erwin in Trumbull Co., OH and then moved to IND in 1850's. They next are found in Effingham, Effingham, ILL in the 1860 census. Now here is the kicker. Robert and Diana are buried in the Ramsey Cemetery just north of Effingham. I have been there and seen the grave stones. Also Margaret Harrison is buried next to them. William drop dead in a hayfield in IN in the 1850's and is buried in a unknown grave in IN as far as I can tell. I have always believe that just maybe there was a connection to this line, but I am sure that the Erwin name was not change and have the line on Robert's family. As you will note his middle name was Kincaid and of course the Erwins married the Kincaid line in Trumbull Co. and was very close to them and the Poulson's. Thanks for the answer and help. We are still looking for the line of our William Harrison. My grandmother always said the we were related to the good Pres. Harrison. Happy Hunting! Court >______________________________X-Message: #2 >Date: 9 Jun 2005 00:24:46 -0600 >From: nuz@dmombit.com >To: HARRISON-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <MB08qUV4qUlyunxtkVO00000ed9@MB08.myfamilysouth.com> >Subject: Re: Harrison/Erwin Connection >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: Harrison, Sutherland, Ramsey, Irwin, Findlay, McClung, Thornton, >Fitzhugh >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jhh.2ACIB/5401.1 > >Message Board Post: > >Hi... > >This may not be that relevant but I've just come across a very fascinating >recounting of the immense friendship between the William H. Harrison (pre >his presidency), Sutherland, Ramsey, Findlay and IRWIN families in North >Bend and/or South Bend, OH. > >Nancy Ramsey married John Sutherland and was his 3rd wife. Their daughter >Mary Anne Sutherland married WHH's son, Carter Bassett Harrison in 1836. > >Nancy's sister Mary Ramsey married Archibald Irwin, and their daughters >married right into the Harrison family. The Irwin girls (Elizabeth and >Jane) met the Harrison boys (John Scott and William H. Jr.) at the >Sutherland's and Nature naturally took its course. LOL! > >Elizabeth Irwin was the 2nd wife of John Scott Harrison (also a son of >WHH's). Their son was Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the >U.S. Another Irwin girl Jane married William H. Harrison, Jr. (also a son >of the 9th President). > >Seems like the Irwin girls and Miss Sutherland sure did their shopping in >the right marriage mart! > >There were a lot of cousins marrying cousins at that time and these folks >seemed to fall right in line with the practice. > >I'm trying to find out what happened to Mary Anne (Sutherland) Harrison >after CBH died in 1839. It seems like she fell right off the face of the >earth! LOL! Supposedly, she and CBH had one daughter, Anna Carter >Harrison who married David Waddle McClung. Some sources report that they >in turn gave birth to Anne Harrison McClung. AHM married Thornton >Fitzhugh. They had a son James McClung Fitzhugh who died unmarried. > >BTW, Thornton Fitzhugh's parents were Anna Harrison Thornton and Lee Mason >Fitzhugh. AHT was the daughter of CBH's sister Mary Symmes Harrison >(daughter of WHH). > >See what I mean about cousins and cousins?! And everybody seems to have >nearly the same names. It can be VERY confusing when you're trying to >figure out who goes with whom. > >Anyway, it occurred to me that perhaps the spelling of your "Erwin" >connections might have evolved from the very prominent "Irwin" >family. Another Irwin daughter Nancy married William Findlay who was >among other things the Governor of Ohio at one point. Jane Irwin married >General James Findlay. > >If you want to read the story which goes into much greater detail about >the above-referenced families, just drop me a line at >"redcat@dmombit.com". I'll be happy to send along the link. > >Good hunting! > >dmt