This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: cmsmith132 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3885/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My great-grandmother was Kate (Catherine) Harris, who married Thomas Jefferson Moore in 1872. I have a copy of the marriage consent signed by her father, Thomas Harris. I believe he only signed his name, and did not write out the whole consent. I believe this family came from Garrard County, as there is a marriage for a Thomas Harris and a Sallie Duncan in Garrard County in 1849 and the 1850 Garrard County Census lists Thomas and Sallie Harris and son Henry as living next door to Isaac and Elizabeth Duncan. Other Garrard County records list at least two Duncan men marrying Harris women. I firmly believe there is a connnection there, but what is it? Other information given by a family member indicates that Kate had not only a brother Henry, but one named William, but I have no information on either of them. A search of the 1860 and 1870 census records give no evidence of this family in Garrard County, and I truly can't find them in either census nationwide. Thomas and Sallie appear in the 1880 census of Garrard with children with at least two other children, Richmond Harris and Phoebe Harris. Then they disappear again, although there is a Thomas Harris in the 1910 census in Louisiana with daughter-in-law Viola Harris and her children. Richmond Harris married Viola Anderson and they lived in Louisiana. Viola is a name given to a daughter of Kate Harris Moore and Thomas Jefferson Moore. Kate and Thomas Moore's son George, my grandfather, was always supposed to have been born in Kentucky according to census records. But in the 1920 census he lists himself as being born in Louisiana in 1883. If anyone can help me tie all this together, I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Christine Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.