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