Billie, please come back to me again on where your friend's Harrison Line starts. I am going through the notes I "heisted" from Mama and would love to have something to add to them by the time she gets here. The line of my grandmother Levica Elizabeth Nicholls Wells is good back three generations to Hezekiah Mordicai or Benjamin Mordecai Harrison, wife Mary [Burr?]; he had died before the 1870 Census, and his wife was born in 1799. Grandmother's line is their son R. Burr Harrison, born about 1832, who wise was Louisa ?. He served with co. I 1st reg. SCV. She has other notes that go back further, but will take some translating. The "Columbia cousins" are descended from R. Burr's brother Hezekiah Mordecae and wife Martha Fetner; they are the family of Dr. A. Frank Harrison, former Clerk to the State Supreme Court Frances Harrison Smith, and Billie Musten, the entertainer. There were twins, Maude (d. 1956) and Maggie Lee, who had "dancing eyes" -- the optic condition known as strabismus. We found Maggie's address among Grandmother's papers after she died; also found address for Mamie Harrison Mitchell (Rt. 2 Skyland Drive, presume West Columbia) whom we have not been able to track. We don't think anyone in our line has strabismus, so it may have come from their maternal family. One of the best-know Harrison family stories is of two brothers who were conductors on the railroad, probably the Southern railroad. One was bitten by a rabid dog, and the brother locked him in a caboose and took him water until he died. (Grandmother and her sister Mattie Evelyn would go visit the cousins by walking out to the railroad tracks that passed their home on the Ninety Six highway -- now the Aull Place -- and wait for the train to come by, knowing one of the uncles would be the conductor and would stop the train when he saw them waiting.) Another oft-told story is of Jessie Iola, called "Ola", b.5-24-1881 d.6-27-1927, who stuck her lip on a (hat?)pin and died of blood poisoning. Many of the "Columbia cousins", the children of Hezekiah Mordicai or Benjamin Mordecai Harrison and wife Mary [Burr?] are listed in the 1870 Census as living in the Columbia Township ? Subdivision North of Camden Road; we presume that Camden Road was the Two Notch Road. Harrison Road, where many of their grandchildren lived or held property turns to the right (more southeast than north, toward the once-popular planters' summer retreat Quinine Hills) off Two Notch about two blocks beyond the present-day intersection of Two Notch and Forest Drive. If it once continued north and west of Two Notch, it would soon be blocked by the railroad tracks that cross North Main at the old Coca-Cola Plant in the Eau Claire area. There is an old school at that intersection, I believe. The road, with house number starting at 5000-something, runs along behind the Middleburg Office Park and high-rise apartments. Cousin Willie Musten and her daughter Billie lived in the posher neighborhood between Forest Drive and Trenholm Road. Mama and Cousin Willie went to the Barhamville Cemetery (off Hughes Road further north up Two Notch -- the Hughes Family were related to these Harrisons) and copied info from the graves there. Something they found there set Mama off on an unproductive or incomplete search of records in York County. As to their relationship to either of the Presidents Harrison, Mama has notes showing that she had been told of this from early childhood by her grandmother, Ella Elizabeth Harrison Nicholls; Cousin Willie Musten confirmed this. Neither one ever bothered to get the details! Mama also had correspondence from Betty (Mrs. Paul H.) Spain of Harrison Road, Columbia, and Mary Floride Cleveland Del Priore (Mrs. Rocco Del Priore III), 124 Floyd St., West Columbia, a neice of Mamie Chappell, who may be the same Mamie Mitchell whose address we found in Grandmother's address book. I probably should also put this on the HARRISON SURNAME ROOTSWEB, but I don't have the address handy. Do you? annie