This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Laws, Harper Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QAw.2ACIB/731 Message Board Post: A query (Feb 99) asked about William Laws in Minnesota and his wife Alice Harper. We have an Alice Harper but we don't know who she married. She was the daughter of Benjamin Harper sr. and Mary Pendel from Feltwell, England. Benjamin Harper jr. married Ann Laws and homesteaded near Wells in Faribault County MN; his brother William Wesley married Carrie Laws. We believe Ann and Carrie had a brother Major (wife Adelaide) and that their parents were Mager Laws and Maria Hensby. Other children of Benjamin Harper sr. and Mary Pendel were Joseph, John, Henry, Sarah, Martha and Mary.