I know nothing about the parentage of Thomas Banks Harris. Yes, Margaret Dunn Thompson was the daughter of Nero Thompson and Sarah Elizabeth Williams. (The Sarah part came from Betty Darnell and her Thompson book - I have not seen it anywhere else.) Yes, they married 14 Jan 1845 in Howard Co. And thanks for the more information about Thomas Banks Harris. I had seven of the children. Glad to have more. I know nothing about the parents of Mary O Harris, either. It is reasonable to me that they would be the same as Thomas B's parents. That is because brother and sister often married brother and sister. Thanks. Carolyn ----- Original Message ----- From: <JUPEP@aol.com> To: <c.n.gibbons@worldnet.att.net>; <MOHOWARD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 9:18 PM Subject: Re: [MOHOWARD-L] THOMPSON > > In a message dated 10/3/02 5:47:32 PM, c.n.gibbons@worldnet.att.net writes: > > << I have seen several places including the Ancestry CD that Howard E > Thompson, the son of Nero Thompson and Sarah Elizabeth Williams, married a > Mary A NORRIS. (His sister Margaret Dunn Thompson married Thomas Banks > Harris.) > > > THIS IS NOT CORRECT! > > > I just looked at the microfilm of the original record - and I will admit that > I at first read it as Norris (or Morris or Worris). But the first initial of > the last name is written exactly like the first letter of Howard County. > This is page 21 of Book 3. The record is Howard E Thomson married Mary 13 > Feb 1845 by James M Butts, MG. This is the day before James M Butts > officiated at the marriage of Thomas B Harris and Margaret D Thomson. All > were of Howard County. > > > This also agrees with the Cemetery book. Mary's death record there has her > maiden name as Harris. > > > Maybe I am late, and everyone already knew this. > > > Carolyn >> > > Are the parents of Thomas Banks Harris, William and Margaret Dunn Harris? > Was Thomas Banks Harris married to Margaret M. Thompson, 16 Jan 1845? > Is she the dau of Nero Morgan Thompson and Sarah Elizabeth Williams? > > All my info on Thomas Banks Harris is from the following: > THOMAS B. HARRIS, > a prominent citizen of Burton township, was born on May 2, 1818, and is a > native of Kentucky. His parents were William and Margaret D. HARRIS, to whom > were born twelve children, and eleven grew to manhood and womanhood. Thomas > B., the second in the family, came to Missouri with his father in 1820, > locating in Howard county. When twenty-one years old he went to Lincoln > county, and two years later removed to what is now the Platte purchase, in > 1840, remaining there until 1844. Returning to Howard county he purchased > eighty acres of land, where his residence now stands. Mr. HARRIS was married > January 16, 1845, to Miss Margaret M. THOMPSON, of this county, and they had > fourteen children, of whom four died in infancy. Ten are now living; > Elizabeth, William T., Olivia M., Millard P., Jerome W., Virgil Bates, > Artiniesia, Martha T., Lenora B. and Margaret Price. Mr. HARRIS now owns 520 > acres of land, all in cultivation. He has given much property to his > children. Politically he is a democrat. In his religious preferences he is > a Cumberland Presbyterian. Mr. HARRIS is a man who never drank a glass of > liquor. > SOURCE: History of Howard and Cooper Counties, St. Louis: National Historical > Company, 1883, (Burton township, pp. 586-601.) > > Thanks > Linda

There is a tree on Ancestry.com that has the history of this family. It's not proof, of course, but a good place to start. Robert Wilkinson Family Entries: 32137 Updated: Sat Aug 25 20:15:05 2001 Contact: Robert Wilkinson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Index | Individual | Register | Download GEDCOM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Thomas HARRIS b: BEF. 1765 d: BEF. 1820 + Mary OWINGS 2 Benjamin HARRIS b: BET. 1780 - 1790 + Elizabeth MCMAHAN b: BET. 1780 - 1790 3 Female HARRIS b: BET. 1810 - 1815 3 Male HARRIS b: BET. 1810 - 1815 3 Female HARRIS b: BET. 1815 - 1820 3 Female HARRIS b: BET. 1820 - 1825 3 Female HARRIS b: BET. 1820 - 1825 2 John HARRIS b: BEF. 1790 + ? ? b: BET. 1780 - 1790 3 Male HARRIS b: BET. 1825 - 1830 3 Male HARRIS b: BET. 1825 - 1830 3 Male HARRIS b: BET. 1825 - 1830 2 Isaac HARRIS b: ABT. 1790 d: 1876 + Margaret DALE b: ABT. 1798 d: ABT. 1860 3 Mahaly HARRIS b: ABT. 1816 d: BEF. 1836 + Henry HARDISTER b: BEF. 1815 3 Miles HARRIS b: ABT. 1817 d: 1848 + Martha Ann WARREN b: BET. 1820 - 1825 4 William B HARRIS b: ABT. 1840 4 Margaret HARRIS b: ABT. 1841 4 Isaac HARRIS b: 23 JUL 1842 d: 4 APR 1888 3 William Jeremiah HARRIS b: ABT. 1817 d: ABT. 1862 + Ruth JOHNSTON b: MAR 1821 d: BEF. 20 MAY 1904 4 Eliza Jane HARRIS b: 8 DEC 1839 d: 15 JAN 1915 + Unknown WEST + William David HOLLOWAY d: 20 JUL 1862 5 George Washington HOLLOWAY b: 18 JAN 1861 + Ella UNKNOWN 6 Maude HOLLOWAY b: 6 NOV 1895 d: 12 FEB 1983 6 Living HOLLOWAY 6 Living HOLLOWAY + Living CLODFELTER 5 William David HOLLOWAY b: 26 MAR 1862 d: 31 OCT 1938 + Dianthia Lettitia SHELDON b: 12 APR 1868 d: 7 MAR 1950 6 Mary L HOLLOWAY b: 19 OCT 1887 d: 30 MAY 1896 6 Lillie Mae HOLLOWAY b: 7 NOV 1888 d: 6 APR 1963 + Isaac Americus MOORE b: 11 NOV 1876 d: 19 JUL 1955 6 William Henry HOLLOWAY b: ABT. 1890 d: 22 NOV 1961 + Ethel GREY 6 Grace Ellen HOLLOWAY b: 5 MAR 1894 d: BEF. 1990 + Unknown DOOLEY + Melvin LINDEMANN 6 Mamie E HOLLOWAY b: 23 APR 1896 d: 1 APR 1911 6 Elsie Lenore HOLLOWAY b: 26 JUN 1898 d: 30 MAY 1927 + Arlo Vern TUCKER b: 18 NOV 1897 d: 9 JUN 1937 6 Baby HOLLOWAY b: NOV 1900 d: NOV 1900 6 Estle Fay HOLLOWAY b: 22 JAN 1903 d: 21 NOV 1961 + Glen G. LINDENBERGER d: BEF. 1970 6 Living HOLLOWAY + Living MURDOCK 6 Living HOLLOWAY + Living HALL + Daniel HERRON d: 1887 5 Lucinda HERRON b: 12 AUG 1864 d: 4 AUG 1903 5 Daniel HERRON b: 4 JUL 1867 + Mary UNKNOWN 6 Grace HERRON 6 Arch HERRON 6 Lillie HERRON 5 Mary F HERRON b: 2 JUN 1870 d: 3 JUL 1903 + I F LOBLER b: 29 MAR 1852 d: 3 FEB 1913 4 William J HARRIS b: ABT. 1841 d: ABT. 1862 4 Sarah Francis HARRIS b: 10 JAN 1846 d: 3 JUN 1934 + Edwin R DOWNARD b: 28 FEB 1831 d: 22 FEB 1923 5 Jesse DOWNARD 5 Frank DOWNARD 4 Daniel HARRIS b: ABT. 1847 + Hannah MOORE 4 Sina HARRIS b: ABT. 1849 d: AFT. 1917 + Unknown BROWN 4 Hila HARRIS b: ABT. 1851 4 Polly Anna HARRIS b: ABT. 21 JAN 1853 d: 16 NOV 1917 + John Ratcliff WILKINSON b: 19 JUL 1845 d: 1919 5 Joseph W WILKINSON + Bertha UNKNOWN 6 Living WILKINSON 6 Living WILKINSON 6 Nathan WILKINSON d: BEF. 1978 6 Living WILKINSON + Living IRONS 6 Living WILKINSON 6 Living WILKINSON 5 George Preston WILKINSON b: 17 DEC 1877 + Iva FRY 6 Living WILKINSON + Living COLLINS 6 Living WILKINSON + Clayton COLLINS 6 Howard Logan WILKINSON b: 13 NOV 1915 d: ABT. 1980 + Nina Alene PULLER b: 20 OCT 1915 d: 1 AUG 1977 6 Living WILKINSON 5 Mary Elizabeth WILKINSON b: 19 DEC 1879 d: 16 DEC 1929 + Louis William METZGER b: 16 MAY 1879 d: 10 NOV 1950 6 John Tobias METZGER b: 3 NOV 1898 d: 2 APR 1965 + Sarah BRANDT d: AFT. 1977 + Gracie STEEL d: AFT. 1977 6 Susie Mae METZGER b: 6 SEP 1900 d: AFT. 1977 + Olie A MOOREN 6 Mary Olive METZGER b: 28 OCT 1904 d: AFT. 1977 + Living SELLARS 6 Cora Anetia METZGER b: 13 FEB 1907 d: AFT. 1977 + Living HARROUN 6 Louis Walter METZGER b: 8 APR 1911 d: AFT. 1977 + Living CRAFT + Living BULIN 6 Charles Albert METZGER b: 30 DEC 1913 d: 1 DEC 1978 + Living NORMAN 5 Gertrude P WILKINSON b: 23 SEP 1884 d: 16 APR 1885 5 Nancy Ella WILKINSON b: ABT. SEP 1902 d: 24 MAR 1922 + Jonah SIMMONS 6 Living SIMMONS + Living ADAMS 4 Nancy Ellen HARRIS b: ABT. 1855 d: 1886 + Joseph Lane WILKINSON b: MAY 1854 d: 1919 5 Riley WILKINSON b: BEF. 1876 d: 1876 5 Joseph Oscar WILKINSON b: 3 AUG 1876 d: 2 MAR 1924 + Eva Matilda YOUNG b: 17 OCT 1879 d: 30 MAR 1954 6 Elizabeth Almira WILKINSON b: 24 JAN 1902 d: 24 OCT 1942 + Joseph R. BLAISDELL 6 Eva Maxine WILKINSON b: 4 DEC 1903 d: 3 DEC 1976 + Hayward Robert GOFF b: 26 AUG 1899 d: 27 OCT 1976 5 Etta WILKINSON b: 12 FEB 1877 d: 4 MAY 1964 + Noah BURCH b: 11 NOV 1879 d: 2 MAY 1962 6 Charles F BURCH b: 1 NOV 1901 d: 1 DEC 1972 + Living GRUBBS 6 Lula BURCH b: 21 NOV 1903 d: BEF. 1990 6 Elmo BURCH b: 24 APR 1908 d: 24 NOV 1970 5 William Silas WILKINSON b: 20 SEP 1880 d: 21 DEC 1948 + Goldie May COOPER b: 2 AUG 1891 d: 10 MAY 1975 6 Albie Leroy WILKINSON b: 14 APR 1912 d: 27 NOV 1963 + Bertha Inez BEATY b: 23 JUN 1919 d: 1985 6 Clifford Laverne WILKINSON b: 9 MAY 1913 d: 3 MAR 1986 + Living SCHULTZ + Living HOPKINS + Living GREELEY + Ruby Jean DOWNING b: 25 APR 1932 d: AFT. 1986 6 Violet May WILKINSON b: 25 OCT 1918 d: 2 AUG 1920 6 Living WILKINSON + Belva L Francis RICHARDSON b: 4 SEP 1919 d: 8 FEB 1992 6 Rosie Lucile WILKINSON b: 31 MAR 1926 d: 29 DEC 1929 6 Goldie May WILKINSON b: 9 JAN 1929 d: 9 JAN 1929 6 Living WILKINSON + Living YOUNG 5 Charles Amos WILKINSON b: 27 MAR 1889 d: MAR 1968 + Cora KOONTZ d: ABT. 1977 4 Stephen Amos HARRIS b: ABT. 1857 d: BEF. 1900 4 Louisa Ella HARRIS b: AUG 1859 d: BEF. 1940 + Alfred WEST 5 Maime WEST + Ralph MOORE 6 Living MOORE 4 Steven Thomas HARRIS b: ABT. 1862 d: AFT. 1917 3 Mary Ann HARRIS b: ABT. 1822 d: AFT. 1860 + Henry HARDISTER b: BEF. 1815 4 Isaac HARDISTER b: ABT. 1839 + Biddy MAGGINNIS 4 Margaret HARDISTER b: ABT. 1841 4 Benjamin HARDISTER b: ABT. 1843 + Unknown REED 4 Juliann HARDISTER b: ABT. 1847 4 Susan HARDISTER b: ABT. APR 1850 3 Julia HARRIS b: ABT. 1825 d: AFT. 1860 + Isaac RILEY 4 Florence RILEY 3 Susan Jane HARRIS b: ABT. 1826 + Elias TURNER b: ABT. 1817 d: BEF. 1850 4 Miles TURNER b: ABT. 1845 4 Isaac TURNER b: ABT. 1849 3 Daughter HARRIS b: ABT. 1830 3 Daugher HARRIS b: ABT. 1835 2 William HARRIS b: 15 MAY 1793 d: 15 MAY 1876 + Margaret DOWNING b: 15 DEC 1792 d: 30 MAY 1867 3 Eliza HARRIS b: 21 JUN 1816 d: 15 JUL 1889 + Asbury ATTERBURY 4 William Edward ATTERBURY b: 28 MAR 1840 d: 24 DEC 1902 + Elizzie MYERS 4 Squire Wesley ATTERBURY b: 16 NOV 1841 d: 11 FEB 1911 + Belle HOOD 4 Margaret Jane ATTERBURY b: 18 DEC 1843 + Thomas CASEY + ? MEAD 4 Arminda ATTERBURY b: 15 NOV 1846 d: 18 NOV 1880 + Henry CLEETON 4 Ann Elizabeth ATTERBURY b: 26 JUN 1849 d: 30 JUN 1889 + George HOCKER 4 Zerelda Candessa ATTERBURY b: 20 AUG 1853 d: 9 JUL 1883 + Hiram SWEATMAN 4 Mary Brown ATTERBURY b: 22 NOV 1859 d: 28 MAY 1883 + ? CLEETON 3 Thomas Banks HARRIS b: 2 MAY 1818 d: 22 JAN 1904 + Margaret Dun THOMPSON b: 12 DEC 1828 d: 18 NOV 1888 4 Elizabeth T HARRIS b: 5 DEC 1845 + ? ? 4 William HARRIS b: 16 SEP 1847 4 Oleviae HARRIS b: 21 APR 1850 + ? CROSS 5 Lula Harris CROSS b: 6 MAR 1877 d: 6 MAR 1927 + Edwin Hanson MORRIS b: 23 DEC 1868 d: 27 SEP 1945 6 Living MORRIS 6 Ray Cross MORRIS b: 11 JAN 1903 d: 2 AUG 1906 6 Living MORRIS 6 Living MORRIS 5 Annie Helen CROSS b: 13 DEC 1878 d: AFT. 1949 + Charles Henry CASWELL b: 23 JUL 1876 d: 26 JUN 1949 6 Living CASWELL 6 Living CASWELL 6 Living CASWELL 6 Living CASWELL 5 Mary Thompson CROSS b: 22 OCT 1884 + Redmond Selecman COLE b: 21 AUG 1841 d: AFT. 1923 6 Living COLE + Samuel WILSON b: 14 JUL 1914 d: 25 SEP 1936 + Living COLE 6 Living COLE + Living COLLINS 5 William Thomas CROSS b: 1 MAY 1887 + Dorothy Hawkins EMBRY b: 1888 4 Willard D HARRIS b: 23 DEC 1851 4 Millard Perry HARRIS b: 6 JAN 1853 4 Jerome Winfield HARRIS b: 11 SEP 1854 4 Virgil Bates HARRIS b: 30 DEC 1856 4 Artemesia Sebastian HARRIS b: 17 OCT 1858 4 Son HARRIS b: 21 SEP 1863 d: 28 JAN 1864 4 Lenora Belle HARRIS b: 21 APR 1864 4 Margaret E HARRIS b: 21 NOV 1870 4 Child HARRIS 4 Child HARRIS 4 Child HARRIS + Lou BROWN b: ABT. 1858 d: 30 OCT 1892 3 Rachel HARRIS b: 28 MAR 1820 d: 22 JAN 1906 3 Male HARRIS b: ABT. 1821 d: ABT. 1821 3 Mary HARRIS b: 20 MAR 1822 d: 27 JUL 1884 + Howard E THOMPSON d: 28 DEC 1863 + Howad E THOMPSON d: 28 DEC 1863 4 William H THOMPSON b: 23 JUL 1849 4 Emily THOMPSON + James WEATHERFORD 4 Ann THOMPSON + Sam WHEELER 4 James M THOMPSON 4 Cordelia THOMPSON 4 Paradene THOMPSON + Charles CARLETON 4 Mary THOMPSON + Charley PATTISON 3 Hardin HARRIS b: 20 DEC 1823 d: 1 FEB 1863 + Martha RAMBO 4 Cornelius HARRIS 4 William HARRIS d: 1880 4 Margaret HARRIS 4 Rachel Alice HARRIS b: 15 DEC 1857 d: AFT. 5 FEB 1933 + Perry CLABOURN d: 1880 5 Henry CLABOURN b: ABT. 1870 5 Child CLABOURN 5 Jesse CLABOURN 5 Child CLABOURN 5 Child CLABOURN 5 Child CLABOURN 3 Jackson HARRIS b: 12 APR 1825 + Madellenner SMITH + Nancy CASPER 4 Milton HARRIS b: 19 MAR 1854 + Arminta THOMPSON + Betty CABLE 4 Thomas Perry HARRIS b: 22 JUL 1855 d: 17 DEC 1934 + Lydia Ella GRIGSBY d: 5 AUG 1931 4 Erie HARRIS b: 14 MAR 1857 + Cleveland HARGIS 4 Robert Davis HARRIS b: 1 FEB 1861 + Agnes BRADLEY 4 Susan H HARRIS b: 9 OCT 1861 d: BET. 1894 - 1895 + George LUNDERMAN 4 Margaret E HARRIS b: 4 JUL 1863 4 Amanda HARRIS b: 31 MAR 1869 d: AFT. 1952 + Ed MAUPIN d: AFT. 1952 3 Zerelda HARRIS b: 2 JAN 1828 d: 27 MAR 1908 3 Margaret HARRIS b: 24 DEC 1830 d: 24 NOV 1905 3 William Downing HARRIS b: 12 JUL 1833 d: 21 APR 1879 + Cynthia A DUNCAN b: 24 DEC 1837 3 Claiborne Brown HARRIS b: 17 MAR 1836 d: 10 SEP 1873 + Susan Elizabeth SHORES b: 19 OCT 1846 d: 27 JUN 1894 3 Ezekiel HARRIS b: 3 JUL 1838 d: 10 SEP 1873 + Ann SHORES 4 Son HARRIS d: 12 MAY 1862 4 Son HARRIS d: 25 AUG 1867 4 Ezekiel HARRIS d: 10 MAY 1867 4 William Lee HARRIS + Mary JOHNSON 4 Charles Clairborne HARRIS b: 3 NOV 1872 + Helen SICELOFF -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Index | Individual | Register | Download GEDCOM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Printer Friendly Version Search Ancestry Search AWT Join Ancestry.com Today! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carolyn Gibbons" <c.n.gibbons@worldnet.att.net> To: <MOHOWARD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 10:19 PM Subject: Re: [MOHOWARD-L] THOMPSON > I know nothing about the parentage of Thomas Banks Harris. Yes, Margaret > Dunn Thompson was the daughter of Nero Thompson and Sarah Elizabeth > Williams. (The Sarah part came from Betty Darnell and her Thompson book - I > have not seen it anywhere else.) Yes, they married 14 Jan 1845 in Howard > Co. And thanks for the more information about Thomas Banks Harris. I had > seven of the children. Glad to have more. > > I know nothing about the parents of Mary O Harris, either. It is reasonable > to me that they would be the same as Thomas B's parents. That is because > brother and sister often married brother and sister. > > Thanks. > > Carolyn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <JUPEP@aol.com> > To: <c.n.gibbons@worldnet.att.net>; <MOHOWARD-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 9:18 PM > Subject: Re: [MOHOWARD-L] THOMPSON > > > > > > In a message dated 10/3/02 5:47:32 PM, c.n.gibbons@worldnet.att.net > writes: > > > > << I have seen several places including the Ancestry CD that Howard E > > Thompson, the son of Nero Thompson and Sarah Elizabeth Williams, married a > > Mary A NORRIS. (His sister Margaret Dunn Thompson married Thomas Banks > > Harris.) > > > > > > THIS IS NOT CORRECT! > > > > > > I just looked at the microfilm of the original record - and I will admit > that > > I at first read it as Norris (or Morris or Worris). But the first initial > of > > the last name is written exactly like the first letter of Howard County. > > This is page 21 of Book 3. The record is Howard E Thomson married Mary 13 > > Feb 1845 by James M Butts, MG. This is the day before James M Butts > > officiated at the marriage of Thomas B Harris and Margaret D Thomson. All > > were of Howard County. > > > > > > This also agrees with the Cemetery book. Mary's death record there has > her > > maiden name as Harris. > > > > > > Maybe I am late, and everyone already knew this. > > > > > > Carolyn >> > > > > Are the parents of Thomas Banks Harris, William and Margaret Dunn Harris? > > Was Thomas Banks Harris married to Margaret M. Thompson, 16 Jan 1845? > > Is she the dau of Nero Morgan Thompson and Sarah Elizabeth Williams? > > > > All my info on Thomas Banks Harris is from the following: > > THOMAS B. HARRIS, > > a prominent citizen of Burton township, was born on May 2, 1818, and is a > > native of Kentucky. His parents were William and Margaret D. HARRIS, to > whom > > were born twelve children, and eleven grew to manhood and womanhood. > Thomas > > B., the second in the family, came to Missouri with his father in 1820, > > locating in Howard county. When twenty-one years old he went to Lincoln > > county, and two years later removed to what is now the Platte purchase, in > > 1840, remaining there until 1844. Returning to Howard county he purchased > > eighty acres of land, where his residence now stands. Mr. HARRIS was > married > > January 16, 1845, to Miss Margaret M. THOMPSON, of this county, and they > had > > fourteen children, of whom four died in infancy. Ten are now living; > > Elizabeth, William T., Olivia M., Millard P., Jerome W., Virgil Bates, > > Artiniesia, Martha T., Lenora B. and Margaret Price. Mr. HARRIS now owns > 520 > > acres of land, all in cultivation. He has given much property to his > > children. Politically he is a democrat. In his religious preferences he > is > > a Cumberland Presbyterian. Mr. HARRIS is a man who never drank a glass of > > liquor. > > SOURCE: History of Howard and Cooper Counties, St. Louis: National > Historical > > Company, 1883, (Burton township, pp. 586-601.) > > > > Thanks > > Linda > >