This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jhh.2ACIB/4846 Message Board Post: I'm looking for any information on the parentage of John B. Harrison's second wife, Louisa Burwell. From the 1850 census I gather she was born around 1789 or 1790. The book, "Civil War Soldiers of Brunswick, Co., VA" states she was "Louisa Burwell of Petersburg." This would suggest that she was the daughter of John Burwell and Anne Powell, but I can find no evidence of her birth or parentage at all. John B. Harrison was descended from a Daniel Harrison of Surry Co., VA. Here's his line: Daniel Harrison Born 1658 in Surry Co., VA (I do not know who his parents were) | Solomon Harrison Born 1690 in Surry Co., VA Mary ? | John Harrison Born: abt 1716 in Surry Co., VA Susannah Edmunds | William Harrison, Captain Born: 1 Aug 1747 in Sussex Co.,VA Mary Tatum Born: 17 Sept 1752 in Chesterfield Co., VA | John B. Harrison Born: 19 Jul 1780 in Sussex Co., VA m1: Mary Wilkins Cocke m2: Louisa Burwell of Petersburg | with wife 1: William Colin Harrison Born: 2 dec 1806 ? with wife 2: George Washington Harrison Born: 1829 at Weedlawn, Meherrin Parish, Brunswick Co., VA. I've been able to find out a lot about this branch of the Harrisons except for Daniel Harrison and Louisa Burwell. I have located Daniel Harrison on a Surry Co. tax list and on a quit rents list for Surry Co., but nothing that indicates who his parents may have been. As for Louisa Burwell. The Burwell family is very well-documented and I have found nothing. The only hints I have are the names of some of her great-grandchildren: there was a Louise Burwell Harrison who lived to age 6, and a George Burwell Harrison. Both were children of Henry Spooner Harrison, son of George Washington Harrison and Sarah Virginia Walton. George Washington Harrison attended William and Mary College, which I was told is a Burwell tradition. He was a Captain in the Virginia Guard. If anyone knows anything about this branch of Harrisons, please email me. Morag