This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GIST Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AFB.2ACI/3471.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Why couldn't James Gist's WIFE have been Harriet 's sisiter? That still would have made John T. Gist James nephew. Just a thought. Mona The Gist connection is interesting because in 1880, James and his daugher were living with Harriet Anne Gist . Later, Thomas and Harriet Ann Gist's son John T. Gist testified that he was nephew of James. This would make Harriet Anne a sister to James. However, the record of her marriage shows her as Harriet Smith. Perhaps she was a half-sister to James with separate fathers.