ROLLCALL Looking for information on James James(birth date and place unk) who in 1839 in Southampton County, VA married Sarah"Sally"Harrison b 1821 VA dau of Catherine C. Harrison b 1800 VA. By the time of the 1850 census Catherine Harrison was apparently a widow. In the 1840 census for Southampton Co, VA there is a James James residence that contained numerous males of various ages but only two females: one a small child and the other one a person the right age grouping to have been Sarah. This is the only time I have found with James James and his wife Sarah Harrison being together. The 1850 census for Southampton County shows Sarah Harrison James living in the household of her mother Catherine Harrison along with three of her children and Sarah's Harrison siblings. James James and the fourth son(my GGF)James Edwin James are nowhere to be seen. The children of Sarah Harrison James in that 1850 census are:Nathaniel, Allen B.(actually his name was "Benjamin Allen" called "Allen"), & Joshua Cummins all born between 1840 & 1846. The first two b in VA and Joshua b in NC. The Harrison siblings of Sarah in the household were:Allen J., Hannah A., Andrew J., Elizabeth H., Benson F., all born between 1823 & 1836 all in VA. My GGGF James James disappeared ca1850. Maybe he was killed in the Mexican War? Maybe he went to the Gold Fields in California? Where is his will? Why did he and that one son (my GGF)James Edwin not live with the rest of the family? Did they have business interests in other places? Family stories have it that after the Civil War my GGF James Edwin James came home to Southampton County, VA and lived with his brother Allen and Allen's wife Patty Turner. However, the story goes that James Edwin and Miss Patty did not get along, so he left. No one knows when he left or where he was headed. However, after a time he appeared in Johnson County in southern IL. He worked as a farm hand and ca1875 he married Eliza Drucilla Marberry. He died there in 1885 when my grandfather Robert Franklin James was four years old. Nobody knows why James went to southern IL, exactly when he arrived or where he was between when he left VA and when he arrived in Johnson Co,IL. It's possible he had another wife somewhere between those two geographical locations. My GGM James spoke of his speech mannerisms and his courtly manners. She said he told her the Jameses owned an oyster bed. Maybe this is why he and his father were gone all the time. Is there anyone out there who can solve this mystery for me? Boice Burns Houston, TX