This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: purcell, harris, brown Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0k.2ADE/782.989.3.1.1.1.2.2 Message Board Post: This is very interesting reading, Linda. I feel that there is a strong connection here, but cannot find the missing link. You will see Lucretia Harris in this piece, but she is born Lucretia Harris. (I wonder, could she have married a cousin, George Harris?) Please write anytime you have info. http://www.spaldinggenealogy.com/charles_harris_sr.htm My father was Voyne Ralph Harris. He grew up in Woodbine and the LaPorte name came up too.