This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jackson, Harper Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xgk.2ACEB/7523.1 Message Board Post: Gideon Harper, second to the oldest son of Mordecai and Margaret (Jackson) Harper was born in Pennsylvania near Fayette County on April 1, 1808. As a young boy he lived in the Rostraver Township area of Westmoreland County Pennsylvania with his parent's,