About once a year I try to pass this information along in this newsgroup, in the hopes someone might recognize the name or have a connection: Phoebe Emaline Harrison is one of those "irritations" in my family history. She's not linked to any of the other individuals with a Harrison surname ... at least no connections I can make. She was my great grandmother's grandmother. I have only, within the past year or so, pieced together a few bits of information on her. From her tombstone, in Poweshiek County, Iowa, I know that she was born on 2-20-1816 and that she died on 10-1-1887. From Census records I know that she was born in New Jersey. From family history it's indicated that she was "bound out" (indentured) to a family in Ohio when she was eight. That indicates that she was orphaned or that her family was poor, but in family histories she maintained a cousinship with President William Henry Harrison -- but this is not unusual with Harrisons from that century. She was married in Licking County, but I haven't been able to find any census records for the "Gilmore" family to whom she was indentured, and I've never been able to make a link with any other Harrisons. She married a John Bearnes, who was about 15 years older and who died about 15 years before she did, also in Poweshiek County.If you have some information or even the smallest hint of a clue I'd be very grateful. Other spellings: Pheebe Emiline, also listed as simply Emaline Bearnes in one census. Kim Day Boise