My Jameses in Southampton Cnty,VA are fit to be made into a mystery novel.My GGGF James James(birth place and date unk)m Sarah Harrison(b1821 Southampton Cnty)in Southampton Cnty in 1838. The 1840 census shows a James James residence in Southampton County with persons who could be the right ones.However, the 1850 census shows Sarah living with her mother, Catherine Harrison b 1800. James & Sarah had four children(all males): Nathaniel b 1840, Benjamin Allen b 1843, James Edwin b ca1845(my GGF) and Joshua Cummings b 1846. All were b in Southampton Cnty but Joshua b in NC. The only time I have found a record of James & Sarah living together was the 1840 census. Also I have never found a record of my GGF James Edwin living with the rest of the family either. There are lots of business transactions in that county involving James James and he was around enough to father children but Sarah lived with her mother, her children and Sarah's Harrison siblings. James James had a brother there in Southampton Cnty named Mark James. Other than that I don't know of any other definite James relations.My GGF James Edwin James was in the Civil War as a Confederate, went home to VA and soon left due to a family disagreement. He wound up in Johnson County in southern Illinois where he married Eliza Drucilla Marberry ca1875. The father James James seems to have disappeared ca1850. Why did this father and son not live with the rest of the family? How did James Edwin James happen to go to that specific spot in southern Illinois? All help will be gratefully accepted. Boice Burns